Personal Injury Law

FDA targets tainted supplements manufacturers

The Associated Press is reporting that the Food and Drug Administration (?FDA?) is cracking down on manufacturers of certain weight loss, body building, and sexual supplements that contain potentially dangerous ingredients. The FDA said last week that some manufacturers are deceptively labeling products to hide that they contain ingredients known to cause adverse health effects. Further, other supplements contain ingredients that should only be available by prescription. Dietary supplements can slip through regulatory cracks because, unlike drugs, they do not have to be approved by the FDA before they are marketed. Such ?slipping through the cracks? is dangerous! Some of the weight-loss supplements contained the active ingredient in the recalled diet drug Meridia, which was pulled off of the market a couple of months ago due to heart risks.

Full post as published by Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog on December 17, 2010 (boomark / email).