In the last 24 hours, FDA has issued two press releases on supplement issues, one concerns another ephedra seizure, and a second warns (albeit belatedly) about brazilian diet pills. Ephedra In this press release, the FDA reports that at its request the U.S. Marshals seized five unlabeled boxes containing various quantities of Lipodrene bottles from [...]

Beginning January 14, 2006, supplement industry lawyer Jonathan Emord who represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case Pearson v. Shalala will host “Health Law and Politics.” The program will air every Saturday from 4PM to 6PM Eastern via radio stations nationwide and via web radio over the Talk Star Radio Network. According to this press [...]

NNFA sent out an email alert yesterday with updated information on ephedra. The association said that this update was prompted by recent seizures by FDA of dietary supplement products containing ephedrine alkaloids. The following Q&A was originally prompted by the decision of the federal district court in Utah invalidating the ephedra ban for supplements with [...]

In what appears to be the first enforcement action since last year’s ephedra ban, the US Marshalls, working with the FDA, has seized 2634 bottles of “Nature’s Treat Energy Plus #1 from Nature’s Treat, Inc. of Gainesville, Texas. For press release, click here.

The McClain decision is a watershed for counsel defending dietary supplement manufacturers in products liability cases. In almost all such cases, the plaintiff relies upon expert testimony to make a causal connection between the ingredients in a supplement and his or her alleged injuries. In McClain, the Eleventh Circuit reversed a $4,178,500.00 plaintiffs’ verdict in [...]