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Oregon expands lawsuit against GNC

Posted 26 September 2016

The Oregon Attorney General has expanded its lawsuit that charged General Nutrition Corporation (GNC) with selling dietary supplements that contain illegal ingredients.

The original complaint, filed in October 2015, concerned picamilon and BMPEA.

Picamilon is a synthetic chemical that is not approved in the United States, but is used as a prescription drug in some countries to treat neurological conditions. BMPEA is a powerful stimulant and amphetamine-like substance that is sometimes sold as a weight-loss or performance-enhancing supplement.

The original complaint alleges that GNC violated the Oregon Unlawful Trade Practices Act (UTPA) by misrepresenting the products as lawful when they are not legal to sell as dietary supplements in the United States.

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September 26th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Acacia rigidula, GNC | Leave a comment

Retailers to stop sales of controversial supplements

Posted 12 April 2015

From the New York Times:

Retailers to Stop Sales of Controversial Supplements
By Anahad O’Connor
April 9, 2015 5:27 pm

Some leading vitamin stores have announced that they were pulling from their shelves a group of supplements that may contain a dangerous stimulant.

Vitamin Shoppe, one of the country’s largest specialty retailers of dietary supplements, said that it planned to stop selling all supplements that list on their labels a plant known as acacia rigidula after a study published on Tuesday reported that many of these products contained an amphetamine-like stimulant called BMPEA.

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April 13th, 2015 | Tags: , | Category: Acacia rigidula | Leave a comment

Acacia rigidula supplements still containing stimulant found on market

Posted 09 April 2015

WASHINGTON | By Toni Clarke

(Reuters) – More than two years after U.S. health regulators discovered an amphetamine-like stimulant in dietary supplements containing Acacia rigidula, products containing the substance remain on the market, a study has found.

The study, published in the journal Drug Testing and Analysis and made public on Tuesday, found the stimulant beta-methylphenylethylamine, or BMPEA, in more than half of 21 brands of Acacia rigidula supplements purchased a year after the discovery by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The study and preparation of the report took another year.

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The study can be found here.

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April 9th, 2015 | Tags: , , | Category: Acacia rigidula | Leave a comment