CDC: Illness Linked to ‘Total Body’ Supplements
I thought I’d pass this along. We don’t talk about supplements much here but since we have lots of MLM readers and nutritional supplements are a popular MLM product, I thought I’d pass this along. Learning how your company avoids such problems might be a good sales point, but the truth is … your company and this company could be buying the product from the same “source”! A mixing machine could have simply broken down. Why it wasn’t caught during inspections before shipping is another matter.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found up to 200 times the label level of selenium in the products. The agency also found 17 times the label level of chromium but has not yet concluded if those levels are toxic.
Toxic levels of the minerals were in about 1,200 bottles distributed in 16 states and over the Internet, said Dr. James Lando, who is leading the team working on the investigation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health officials are looking into an escalating number of illnesses in 10 states - Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina.
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