Dietary Supplements

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Dietary Supplements

• Kaley McNay Anda Shiarla Nathan Sparks

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Weight Loss Drugs

• Kaley McNay Anda Shiarla Nathan Sparks

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Up Until the 1930s
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Legislation to protect consumers

• 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act (spawned FDA) was
  eventually ruled unenforceable for therapeutic
  drugs
• 1912 Shirley Amendment made patent medicine
  fraud prosecutable, still nearly unenforceable as
  actual fraud had to be proven
• 1938 Food Drugs and Cosmetics Act gave FDA more
  power over therapeutic drugs, added pre-market
  approval
• 1951 Humphrey Durham Amendment
• 1962 Drug Amendments now made it so drugs had
  to be safe and effective
• Laws since the 1960s

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Companies in Trouble

• Trimspa
• Fined 1.5 million by the FTC
• Claims not supported by scientific evidence
• CortiSlim
• Surrendered assets worth 12 million to settle
  FTC charges
• False claims of weight loss

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Companies in Trouble

• Bayer
• Fined 3.2 million by the FTC
• Violated order by FTC requiring scientific
  evidence
• USA Prescriptions Inc.
• Weight Watchers sued the software company
• Pop-up ads for diet pills on Weight Watchers
  website
• Deceived the customers

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Dietary Supplements

• Ingredients
• Thyroid extracts
• Acts like human thyroid hormones
• Increase metabolism
• Fat burners
• Raise metabolism
• Break down body fat
• Ephedra
• Originally used for asthma
• Similar to amphetamines

• Side effects
• Heart attacks
• Anxiety
• Vomiting
• Difficult urination
• Manic episodes
• Insomnia
• Seizures
• Racing heart
• Kidney failure/stones
• Severe headache
• Death

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Facts

• Voluntary reports of adverse reactions
• 180 deaths linked to herbs and supplements over
  the past few years
• Herbal supplements not regulated by the FDA
• FDA will wait until it receives reports of
  problems caused by supplements before it can
  investigate and ban a dietary supplement

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Ephedra Supplement Lawsuits

• Misleading / deceptive advertising
• Did not mention health risks (Xenedrine)
• Increased blood pressure
• Irritability of the heart
• Heart conditions and death
• Cytodine Technologies contends
• 17 times faster
• Strength, energy, and endurance

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Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler
-Died February 17 at age 23-Collapsed at spring
training
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• Ehedra banned by NFL, NCAA, and IOC
• Baseball commissioner advising against use of
  products containing Ephedra
• Want company to include health risk information
  in supplement ads
• Warning labels heart attack and strokes
• Warning regarding warm weather
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• 100 deaths linked to supplement

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• Full ban
• The standard that companies can't market dietary
  supplements "that pose a significant or
  unreasonable risk of illness or injury" still
  stands
• The company has no immediate plans to begin
  selling the supplement again
• Cytodyne Technologies stated
• It's not a coincidence that at this time the
  prosecutors have decided to file these
  allegations, given the current sensationalized
  climate surrounding ephedra."

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Takeaway

• As retailers move more into branding their own
  products, risk from product failure, from
  potentially false claims, and from consumer
  safety issues needs to be considered.
• Damage from one product issue no longer just
  affects one product, but may affect the
  retailers other store brands and the retailer
  itself (consumer backlash)

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Works Cited

• http//www.affordablesupplements.com/xenadrine_rfa
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• http//www.consumerreports.org/cro/health-fitness/
  drugs-supplements/dangerous-supplements-504/overvi
  ew/index.htm
• http//image1.mapmuse.com/images/all/logo_WEIGHT_W
  ATCHERS.gif
• http//chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/dhpw/wellness/diet
  ary/Factsheets/Ephedra.pdf
• http//www.thesportjournal.org/sport-supplement/Vo
  lume2011,20No202/ephedra.htm
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• http//www.out-law.com/page-3018
• http//www.trimspa.com/annahome/Annahorsehomepage.
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• http//www.lawyerseek.com/Practice/Consumer-Protec
  tion-C21/Diet-Pills-P139/
• http//www.foodanddiet.com/NewFiles/dietpills.html
  
• http//www.ahealthyme.com/topic/herbreport
• http//www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5358713
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• http//3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/images/
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• http//www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/4946
• http//www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-04-14-eph
  edra-case_x.htm