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A dietary supplement company has destroyed $8 million worth of sports nutrition products in response to a crackdown by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a controversial stimulant ingredient called DMAA.
FDA officials announced Tuesday that USPlabs voluntarily destroyed all DMAA-containing products located at its Dallas facility. The products were sold under the names OxyElite Pro and Jack3d. USPlabs has agreed to stop manufacturing supplements with DMAA, the FDA said.
"They were the largest marketer, distributor, seller of such products," Daniel Fabricant, director of FDA's dietary supplements division, told USA TODAY.
Beginning in April 2012, the FDA issued warning letters to several dietary supplement companies notifying them that products containing DMAA were illegal and needed to be removed from the market or reformulated. Although DMAA was called geranium extract and touted by some makers as an all-natural stimulant, the FDA said it was really a drug that could not legally be put in supposedly all-natural dietary supplements.
The FDA also warned that DMAA can cause health risks, especially when combined with caffeine. Most of the companies that were warned stopped distributing the products, the FDA has said.
"DMAA was marketed by Eli Lilly from the 1940s up until the 1980s," Fabricant said. DMAA was once approved as a drug for nasal decongestion. DMAA is also known as 1,3-dimethylamylamine.
Fabricant emphasized that consumers should not buy or take any DMAA containing supplements that may still be on the market because of the potential for health risks. "We've had reports of cardiovascular incidents, like heart attack and stroke," he said.
USPlabs agreed to destroy its products on July 2 after the FDA administratively detained them, the agency said. The FDA can detain products it believes are adulterated or misbranded.
USPlabs had told the FDA that the compound was legal because the firm contended it was a natural component in a type of geranium. USPlabs could not immediately be reached for comment on the destruction of its DMAA products
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A dietary supplement company has destroyed $8 million worth of sports nutrition products in response to a crackdown by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on a controversial stimulant ingredient called DMAA.
FDA officials announced Tuesday that USPlabs voluntarily destroyed all DMAA-containing products located at its Dallas facility. The products were sold under the names OxyElite Pro and Jack3d. USPlabs has agreed to stop manufacturing supplements with DMAA, the FDA said.
"They were the largest marketer, distributor, seller of such products," Daniel Fabricant, director of FDA's dietary supplements division, told USA TODAY.
Beginning in April 2012, the FDA issued warning letters to several dietary supplement companies notifying them that products containing DMAA were illegal and needed to be removed from the market or reformulated. Although DMAA was called geranium extract and touted by some makers as an all-natural stimulant, the FDA said it was really a drug that could not legally be put in supposedly all-natural dietary supplements.
The FDA also warned that DMAA can cause health risks, especially when combined with caffeine. Most of the companies that were warned stopped distributing the products, the FDA has said.
"DMAA was marketed by Eli Lilly from the 1940s up until the 1980s," Fabricant said. DMAA was once approved as a drug for nasal decongestion. DMAA is also known as 1,3-dimethylamylamine.
Fabricant emphasized that consumers should not buy or take any DMAA containing supplements that may still be on the market because of the potential for health risks. "We've had reports of cardiovascular incidents, like heart attack and stroke," he said.
USPlabs agreed to destroy its products on July 2 after the FDA administratively detained them, the agency said. The FDA can detain products it believes are adulterated or misbranded.
USPlabs had told the FDA that the compound was legal because the firm contended it was a natural component in a type of geranium. USPlabs could not immediately be reached for comment on the destruction of its DMAA products
That was some good shit. They helped me lose 60+ pounds. Always had energy, even after a full day of work.
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I still have a few things of jack3d. That shit made my skin feel like it was crawling.
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is that $6 million wholesale or retail? Probably $1000 worth of it that they mix and blend into $6 million worth of product they sell
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is that $6 million wholesale or retail? Probably $1000 worth of it that they mix and blend into $6 million worth of product they sell
I'm sure that's retail value.
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FDA didn't even bother testing these drugs, just ordered USP Labs to stop making them based on circumstantial evidence.
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is that $6 million wholesale or retail? Probably $1000 worth of it that they mix and blend into $6 million worth of product they sell
Hahahahahahaha beat me to it.
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Haha I have some of this ,GNC was giving out free samples about 2 years ago and I never took them cause I figured it was worthless lol.
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Up till a year ago, there was even a geranium warning on label of my pre-workout ;D
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1 scoop jack3d w 1/2 scoop muscle pharm assault= rocket fuel.
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This breaks my god damn heart. I love Jack3d
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What a waste. Meanwhile big corporations continue to put harmful substances in our food and environment unabated. Oddly enough, DMAA never did much for me.
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Gaspari doing a limited run of DMAA.
I dont like Stims, but for those that do:
https://mindandmuscle.net/articles/product/gaspari-superpump-250-dmaa/
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The original super pump was pretty good.
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Anything that works is banned so if you find something stock up! Ultimate Orange in the 90's was awesome!
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Anything that works is banned so if you find something stock up! Ultimate Orange in the 90's was awesome!
The first pre-workout.
Stuff was great. I liked stims before the gym back in those days, not any more. I do have 200 Ephedrine tabs I just got though, just for once in a while when really dragging ass...
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Gaspari doing a limited run of DMAA.
I dont like Stims, but for those that do:
https://mindandmuscle.net/articles/product/gaspari-superpump-250-dmaa/
You resurrect a 6 year old thread to say this?
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The first pre-workout.
Stuff was great. I liked stims before the gym back in those days, not any more. I do have 200 Ephedrine tabs I just got though, just for once in a while when really dragging ass...
I used to have a job working the night shift and I lived on those things.
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In my opinion stimulants are a bodybuilders worst enemy - even for guys that tend to be on the side of fat, slow, and tired. They are OK once in a very long while, when you have some work you need to get done for a deadline, but their regular use just isn't conducive to long-term physique growth and improvement.
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In my opinion stimulants are a bodybuilders worst enemy - even for guys that tend to be on the side of fat, slow, and tired. They are OK once in a very long while, when you have some work you need to get done for a deadline, but their regular use just isn't conducive to long-term physique growth and improvement.
Do stims react negatively with your ARV's?
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This breaks my god damn heart. I love Jack3d
Our hearts break that you're no longer with us, Mr. Kox. Hope you're somewhere safe, cracking one off.
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Was nearly as good as cocaine..love sum Columbian castor sugah
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You resurrect a 6 year old thread to say this?
Rob, you comment on a 6 year old thread to say that and be useless?? Fuck off.
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But let’s legalize Psilocybin and weed 🤦♂️
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But let’s legalize Psilocybin and weed 🤦♂️
I love ya Coach, but I'll take the legal weed. 8)
Great medicine (THC).
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Rob, you comment on a 6 year old thread to say that and be useless?? Fuck off.
I thought it was something new you tard. Do yo u have any more breaking news for us?