OxyELITE Pro Pulled From Shelves Nationwide After 29 Liver Failure Cases In Hawaii

[Eugene]

Source: Huffington Post

OxyELITE Pro Pulled From Shelves Nationwide After 29 Liver Failure Cases In Hawaii

Posted: 10/08/2013 6:19 pm EDT | Updated: 10/08/2013 6:19 pm EDT

Diet supplement manufacturer USPLabs is stopping nationwide distribution of the diet pill OxyELITE Pro in lieu of a staggering number of liver failure cases associated with the supplement, Hawaii News Now reported.

The announcement comes shortly after the Hawaii Department of Health requested the “voluntary removal” of OxyELITE Pro from Hawaii retailers, and asked the public to stop any use of the diet supplement. Hawaii DOH linked OxyELITE Pro to 24 recent cases of liver damage across the state, including one death.

A total of twenty nine cases of liver failure and acute hepatitis have been reported in Hawaii in the last six months, all of them linked to dietary supplements. The Department of Health had been reluctant to pinpoint any specific supplement in the past, but now acknowledges that at least 24 of the patients reported using OxyELITE Pro before being hospitalized.

“No other supplement or medication has been identified in common among more than two patients,” Dr. Sarah Park, the state epidemiologist, said in a statement.

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1. This is to be expected (another GWB legacy)

Now that Pharma can introduce product while said product is still being 'tested' and said 'test' results releases are voluntary.

[Warpy]

2. This stuff is classified as food, not drugs

Supplements mostly escape regulation and what testing that has been done has demonstrated that their is little consistency in dosage and some shady manufacturers have even substituted cheap filler for expensive supplements.

Add to that the fact that much of the vitamin concentrates are coming from China or India, where oversight is lax, and you have a recipe for disaster.

I never heard of this company. I do know several companies do voluntarily get their stuff spot checked for problems. Apparently this company did not.

Let the lawsuits begin. And this time, supplements might be regulated, at last.

[BlueToTheBone]

3. "in lieu of a staggering number of liver failure"

what does that mean?

[Warpy]

4. They used it improperly

They probably meant they're withdrawing it to prevent a large number of people presenting with liver failure.

I just hope they spring for a really heavy lab analysis of the product and of the ingredients from which it was made to find out what is causing this and where it originated.

[CanSocDem]

5. It "originated"...

...in the vast, lawless world of the free market where profit is quickly becoming the only measure; where false and misleading advertising is disguised as education and where academic institutions are routinely compromised for financial gain.

I'm sure "a really heavy lab analysis" will clear it all up.....


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[Warpy]

6. Well, never let it be said I ever got in the way of a really good rant

but even though you just agreed with me, we're done here.