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Feds Say Sleep Snacks are Unsafe

By News Desk on August 3, 2011

Months after a controversy erupted over melatonin-laced brownies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned one company that its product is “adulterated” because melatonin is an unapproved dietary supplement.

lazycake-inside.jpgIn a July 28 warning …
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Durbin Wants FDA to Regulate Food with Melatonin

By Dan Flynn on May 19, 2011

The marketing of melatonin-laced brownies to children was a just a local issue last week, but not anymore.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Wednesday asked U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to see…

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Massachusetts Officials Want Lazy Cakes Banned

By Dan Flynn on May 17, 2011

Lest you think that fruit-flavored concoctions mixing caffeine with alcohol were the extreme edge of the supplement industry, please meet Lazy Cakes.

After the Red Bull era, in which dozens of foods and drinks were…

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