Sports Nutrition Products Mark Start Of FDA’s Picamilon Enforcement
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Five warnings likely mark the start of a sweep to rid the US market of products containing the ingredient that the agency initially identified as violative in a recent declaration submitted for the Oregon attorney general’s complaint against GNC and that Senator McCaskill says FDA should prevent firms from using.
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