The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading FDA issues alerts for candy pacifiers, seafood, mushrooms, supplements
Editor’s note: Blissful Remedies is the latest brand of kratom products recalled.
Users of kratom supplements are putting themselves at risk for Salmonella infections from a product that has no nutritional or medical benefits.
After
Continue Reading FDA commissioner says kratom not worth the Salmonella risk
A Chicago business whose supplement products have been recalled for expensive lead and linked to several illnesses and possibly two deaths of children is again recalling products because of excess lead content.
Ton Shen Health
Continue Reading Firm again recalls supplements for excess lead levels; kids sick
Local, state and federal officials are investigating Ton Shen Health in relation to elevated lead levels in children and two deaths that occurred after people took a Life Rising brand dietary supplement. The Chicago-based Ton
Continue Reading Life Rising tablets suspected in elevated lead cases, 2 deaths
Seven federal agencies, led by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), have announced joint civil and criminal actions against more than 100 makers and marketers of potentially dangerous dietary supplements, which one official compared to
Continue Reading Feds Announce ‘Nationwide Sweep’ of Supplement Makers
Mounting pressure on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to do something about beta-methylphenethylamine, or BMPEA, being widely used in weight loss and energy supplements may have helped spark the agency to recently issue
Continue Reading FDA Warning Letters: Companies Told to Stop Distributing Supplements Containing BMPEA
TriVita Inc. of Scottsdale, AZ, will refund $3.5 million to consumers for marketing its cactus juice as a cure-all for pain, inflammation, and respiratory and skin problems. All those health claims are unfounded, according to
Continue Reading Phony Health Claims About Cactus Juice Result in $3.5-Million FTC Settlement
When Food Safety News began, back in the wee hours of the Obama administration, our plan was to plow deep in the fields that directly involved food safety, but to consciously avoid distractions into other
Continue Reading Letter From the Editor: Time for Supplements
Late Monday, you could still buy the body-building diet supplement Craze online from Amazon in candy grape, berry lemonade and piña colada flavors, but it was “currently unavailable” at Driven Sports, Inc., the company that
Continue Reading Scientists Find Meth-Like Chemical in 'Craze' Bodybuilding Supplement
FDA announced this week that two food supplement companies have recently halted production in response to claims and court orders. Truman J. Berst, doing business as Alternative Health and Herbs Remedies, was ordered on Sept.
Continue Reading Court Rulings Halt Production at Food Supplement Companies
Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) is a “highly pure food grade powder derived from milk lactose” with uses including being an ingredient in dietary supplements for kids. Since as early as May 10, 2012, Westchester, IL-based Corn Products
Continue Reading Salmonella In the Mix Brings Recall of Dietary Supplements
