Supplement recalled on the "toxic" ingredient, warns the FDA
The agency warns that it finds more products with a potentially fatal component.
If your daily routine consists of Take supplements To improve your health, you must be aware of the potential risks. Food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA) has long -term consumers that the agency does not have the power to approve food supplements for safety and efficiency before being put on the market, which means that the risks are sometimes only revealed after having already taken them. Fortunately, the FDA monitors the products sold, which has now led to a new reminder on a plant -based supplement.
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In an April 4 Press release , the FDA shared an announcement by World Green Nutrition, Inc., concerning a reminder. According to the alert, the company remembers its Elv Green Elv brand -based plant supplements.
The supplements recalled are available in white capsule bottles at 90 counts with blue covers, and have one of the following lot numbers: N1082701 (Ex: 050328), GESPM240622 (Ex: 071324), GESPM300622 (Ex: 071324 ), DESPM050722 (EXP: 071324), 190620230009B (EXP: 061928), 190620231573678B (Ex: 062828) and 280620231573678BA (Ex: 062828).
"The ELV Control Plant Supplement Product 90 Capsules Submitted is only sold through authorized distributors and not through electronic commerce platforms or in physical stores, because World Green Nutrition does not Sales by these means and are not authorized sales channels ", the sales channels", the World Green Nutrition does not make sales by these means declared the company in its communication. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
According to the announcement, random tests carried out by the FDA revealed the "presence of Oliander Yellow" in this product.
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The yellow oliander is a "toxic plant native to Mexico and Central America", and those who consume it can feel "harmful effects on neurological, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular health which can be serious or even fatal", explained the alert.
If you have consumed a yellow toxic olean, you may experience symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, heart changes and arrhythmia.
World Green Nutrition has not received any report of diseases related to the consumption of its ELV plant supplements, but people are always invited to consume any of the affected products.
"Consumers who bought capsules of ELV 90 plant -based ELV Supplements can return to the place where they have purchased to obtain an exchange for another product marketed by the Company or have the product", added the ad. "Finally, it is important to mention that for the exchange to be valid, it is necessary that the product corresponds to that sold by World Green Nutrition, Inc., because in the case of apocryphal or hacked products that have been acquired outside From the network of authorized distributors, they cannot be exchanged for other products. "
This is not the first recall of World Green Nutrition this year. In fact, the last alert is a Extension of a reminder The company launched in January. At that time, World Green Nutrition announced that it was recalling its Mexican tejocote root supplements Elv Alipotec, also due to the presence of yellow oleanism.
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The FDA is Warn That it concerns more products containing an olean in toxic yellow is still on the market. As the agency explains on its website, a September 2023 report Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that several root products Tejocote were actually an olean with toxic yellow.
Following this report, the FDA launched an investigation to test the root products Tejocote for yellow oleanism - which resulted in the above reminders.
"The analysis of the FDA determined that certain food supplements labeled like tejocote (crataegus mexicana) or Brazilian root seeds are falsified because they have been tested and have proven to be substituted by yellow (Thevetia peruvana ), a toxic plant from Mexico and Central America and a worrying toxic substance for public health officials, "said the agency. "In other words, the products tested labeled like Tejocote or Brazilian seeds are in fact toxic yellow oleanists."
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