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Is This Stuff Legal? FDA Files on New Dietary Ingredients

Everybody is looking for a pill that makes them look and feel better, and the dietary supplement industry is happy to oblige. With new products hitting the market daily, this project aims to catalogue the new dietary ingredient notifications that manufacturers have sent to the FDA, which have been accepted, and which have been objected to.

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A Leaf of Faith: The Kratom Story

Kratom is a plant in the coffee family from Southeast Asia. It is typically consumed as raw powder, tea, and in capsule form. Although the herb displays an excellent safety profile, in 2014 the United States Food and Drug Administration issued an import alert on it, a de facto attempt to prevent its importation and sale.

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Charged with boosting health supplements, ex-FDA and current natural products executive has long history of harassment and discrimination complaints

Charged with boosting health supplements, ex-FDA and current natural products executive has long history of harassment and discrimination complaints

by Anthony Roberts
May 09, 2018

A number of people at different employers have made complaints about being harassed and bullied by Dr. Daniel Fabricant for the past several years. Yet, after a stint at the Food and Drug Administration, he remains the CEO of the largest dietary supplement lobbying group in the nation and treasurer of its Political Action Committee.

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FBI file on controversial steroid guru Daniel Duchaine reveal his skill at evading the authorities

FBI file on controversial steroid guru Daniel Duchaine reveal his skill at evading the authorities

by Anthony Roberts
March 07, 2018

Author of the “Underground Steroid Handbook,” Daniel Duchaine is a controversial figure in the bodybuilding world, once described as a “cross between Andy Kaufman and Albert Einstein, with some Bart Simpson thrown in.” A recent release of Federal Bureau of Investigation records on Duchaine reveal him as not only an expert on masking the use of anabolic steroids in athletes, but also an expert at masking their trafficking from the FBI.

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National Institute of Health study on “Dangers of Kratom” references evidence that doesn’t exist

National Institute of Health study on “Dangers of Kratom” references evidence that doesn’t exist

by Anthony Roberts
January 30, 2017

National Institutes of Health recently published a catastrophically flawed case report on kratom, with multiple references which directly contradict the paper’s conclusions, and one source that simply doesn’t exist.

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DEA refuses to release evidence backing Kratom ban

DEA refuses to release evidence backing Kratom ban

by Anthony Roberts
December 05, 2016

On August 30th, the DEA filed a notice of intent to temporarily designate Kratom as a schedule 1 drug. That notice listed 33 footnotes, but the actual references themselves were not included in the document itself. The same day, a FOIA was filed for that information … to which the agency responded with with press releases and copies of federal laws.

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Latest Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
National Physique Committee and Performance Enhancing Drugs (Drug Enforcement Administration) Rejected Drug Enforcement Administration United States of America
Professional Bodybuilding and Performance Enhancing Drugs (Drug Enforcement Administration) Rejected Drug Enforcement Administration United States of America
Professional Bodybuilding and Performance Enhancing Drugs (Federal Bureau of Investigation) No Responsive Documents Federal Bureau of Investigation United States of America
National Physique Committee: Non-Profit to For-Profit (Federal Bureau of Investigation) No Responsive Documents Federal Bureau of Investigation United States of America
National Physique Committee: Non-Profit to For-Profit (Internal Revenue Service) Rejected Internal Revenue Service United States of America

Recently Completed Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
FDA: GRAS Documents Provided to Senator Markey Completed Food and Drug Administration United States of America
FDA: Copies of Documents Provided to Senator McCaskill Completed Food and Drug Administration United States of America
FBI: Adrian Lamo Completed Federal Bureau of Investigation United States of America
FDA: Dymethazine Completed Food and Drug Administration United States of America
Redcon1 Arimistane (ANDROSTA-3,5-DIENE-7,17-DIONE) (Food and Drug Administration) Completed Food and Drug Administration United States of America

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