FDA Sued Over Qualified Health Claims
I’ll be curious to see how this one plays out… The Food and Drug Administration is being sued. (Not for the first time.) This time, it’s by supplement companies who don’t like the way the agency denies or waters down the “qualified health claims” they can put on their wares. …You can see why the companies don’t like the way the FDA alters the qualified claims they allow. One claim cited...
Cancer Project Sues Hot Dog Manufacturers
Another lawsuit’s in the works: the Cancer Project – a vegan-oriented physician’s group concerned with dietary approaches to cancer prevention/survival – is suing the major hot dog manufacturers for fraud on behalf of three New Jersey consumers. WASHINGTON—Three New Jersey residents are suing Nathan’s Famous, Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayer, Sara Lee, Con Agra Foods, and Marathon Enterprises for failing to warn...
Another Acai Scammer Bites the Dust
This time it’s FXsupplements.com, the makers of Acai Berry Maxx. FORT WORTH – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today resolved the state’s investigation into an Arlington dietary supplements distributor. Under the settlement, FXsupplements.com agreed to stop shipping unauthorized orders to customers, refrain from making false health claims, and clearly disclose its terms of service to future purchasers. The online vendor also...
Rules Aren’t Made to be Broken
Which is something that certain supp manufacturers/retailers evidently don’t understand. Earlier in the week, I clicked through an interesting presentation given at the recent International Society of Sports Nutrition conference. Entitled “Sports Supplements, Science, and the Politics of New Washington“, it offered some explicit warnings to the supplement industry. As authors Rick Collins, JD, CSCS and Alan...
Wow. Just Wow.
This press release sez it all… SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Michigan business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to fraudulently market dietary supplements over the Internet with illegal claims that these supplements could prevent, treat or cure a number of diseases. Several Web sites were used to...
The End of NyQuil as We Know It?
That’s the title of this Wall Street Journal Blog post – and it sure puts some perspective on all the howling about the dangers of “unregulated supplements.” Now, a panel of outside experts convened by the agency is meeting to discuss ways to reduce the risk of overdose associated with acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The FDA’s briefing memo says the numbers aren’t entirely clear, but cites one...
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