News tagged with 'Performance Enhancing Supplements'

The Federal Trade Commission announced three enforcement actions against direct marketers of weight-loss products containing ephedra. The two settlements and one complaint, filed in U.S. district court, target deceptive efficacy, safety, and "no side effects" claims for weight loss supplements containing ephedra (also

Thousands of consumer complaints made about the ephedra-containing dietary supplement Metabolife do not contain enough information to prove the stimulant causes heart attacks and strokes, health officials revealed Wednesday. The General Accounting Office, a special investigative branch of Congress, studied the 16,000

One of the nation's leading consumer advocacy groups called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week to ban the sale of dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant ephedra. In the latest report, Washington, DC-based Public Citizen, which originally asked the FDA to ban ephedra in September 2001

Another healthcare organization has joined the growing number of public interest groups calling for the immediate ban of dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant ephedra. In a statement submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Thursday, the American Heart Association urged the federal government

NASCAR officials are discussing the possibility of banning the controversial herbal stimulant ephedra in the wake of major league baseball player Steve Bechler's death. According to NASCAR sources, up to 80 percent of crewmembers and a handful of drivers have used ephedra at some point to fight fatigue and fat during

A California state senator initiated a bill Wednesday that will prohibit the sale of supplements containing the controversial herbal stimulant ephedra. Senator Jackie Speier introduced the law stating that the ban of ephedra was critical to protecting the health of California's 34 million residents. If approved, Cali

In an unprecedented decision involving the controversial stimulant ephedra, Suffolk County Wednesday banned the sale of all dietary supplements containing the substance. Joined by several residents with family members who had died while taking ephedra products, County Executive Robert Gaffney signed the bill into la

Convenient store chain 7-Eleven Inc. and dietary supplement distributor EAS announced Wednesday that they will no longer sell products containing ephedra due to the substance's link to heart attacks, strokes and seizures. Ephedra, which peaked in popularity two years ago when athletes endorsed the supplement as a mean

The second lawsuit involving the controversial ephedra-based dietary supplement Metabolife 356 ended last week with jurors ruling that the product was defective but not responsible for a California man's stroke. Tom Hendriksen and his wife Dena filed suit against Metabolife International alleging the Metabolife 356 pi

Metabolife International has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an additional 1,400 customer complaints made about the company's ephedra-based dietary supplements. Last August, the FDA asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into allegations that the company lied about the s

One of the nation's leading dietary supplement manufacturers will stop selling products containing ephedra due to increasing safety concerns and rising insurance costs. Twinlab Corporation, the makers of such supplements as Ripped Fuel and Metabolift, made the announcement Monday, saying the company will instead marke

A Senate subcommittee concluded Tuesday that Metabolife International Inc., a leading herbal supplement seller, intentionally hid consumer complaints about its products from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the 1990s. Last August, the FDA asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation

Attorneys representing Metabolife International are denying allegations that the supplement maker lied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the negative effects of ephedra. On Thursday, the FDA announced that it had asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Metabolife w

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday that it has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into allegations that a leading herbal supplement seller lied about the safety of Ephedra. According to FDA Deputy Commissioner Lester Crawford, the administration has been attemptin

The chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services yesterday to determine if the dietary supplement ephedra, used by athletes to speed their metabolism, poses an "imminent hazard" to consumers and if so, to immediately ban the sale of the substance. Senator Richa