Prohibited Stimulants in Dietary Supplements After Enforcement Action by the US Food and Drug Administration

Pieter A Cohen; Anita Wen; Roy Gerona

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4846

Prohibited Stimulants in Dietary Supplements After Enforcement Action by the US Food and Drug Administration

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Dec 1;178(12):1721-1723. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4846.

Authors

Pieter A Cohen^{1

2}, Anita Wen³, Roy Gerona⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Somerville, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis.
⁴ Clinical Toxicology and Environmental Biomonitoring Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco.

Abstract

This analysis of dietary supplements purchased in 2014 and purchased again in 2017 examines whether stimulants that were initially present were still present after issuance of public notices by the US Food and Drug Administration to remove potentially hazardous ingredients.

MeSH terms

Central Nervous System Stimulants*
Consumer Product Safety*
Dietary Supplements*
Humans
Legislation, Food*
United States
United States Food and Drug Administration*

Substances

Central Nervous System Stimulants