By Toni Clarke
Feb 15 (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators have sent letters to 9 Internet distributors of dietary supplements warning them opposite creation feign claims about their products’ ability to quarrel a flu.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted a letters on a website late Thursday in an bid to drive consumers divided from a accumulation of herbal products that a distributors explain revoke a generation or astringency of a flu.
In a minute to a association called Supplementality LLC, for example, FDA pronounced a distributor was improperly charity products dictated to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, provide or heal a influenza virus, and demanded a association “immediately stop marketing†in this way.
“There are no over-the-counter products that digest a generation or astringency of a flu,†Gary Coody, FDA’s inhabitant health rascal coordinator, pronounced in an interview.
The warning covers products including Resveratrol, Garlic, Echinacea, Elderberry, Ashwagandha and Astragalus Immune System Support.
The warning letters come amid an scarcely serious cold and influenza season, that has pushed adult direct for cold remedies.
Coody pronounced that in some cases a infractions cited in a warning letters associated to dubious claims about a supplements. In other cases they associated to a sale of feign versions of a medication antiviral drug Tamiflu.
Other companies that perceived warning letters embody Discount Online Pharmacy, Kosher Vitamin Express, Medsnoscript, Oasis Consumer Healthcare LLC, Secure Medical Inc, Sun Drug Store, Vitalmax Vitamins, and University of Berkley, whose selling of a “Berkley-Body-Immune Flu Prevention†product violates a law.
Coody pronounced 6 companies have done corrections following their receipt of a letters, that were released progressing this month.
(Reporting By Toni Clarke in Washington; modifying by Nick Zieminski and Matthew Lewis)
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