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USPlabs CEO Jacob Geissler is the subject of an investigative article by Alison Young of USA Today. Young explores Geissler's steroid conviction and multiple run-ins between USPlabs and the FDA and the connection between its product OxyElite Pro and the multiple cases of severe liver injury in Hawaii.
Source: Firm in outbreak probe has history of run-ins with FDA
In July, under pressure from the FDA, USPlabs destroyed $8 million worth of OxyElite Pro and Jack3d supplements that contained DMAA... Even though it reformulated its products, USPlabs maintains that DMAA is a safe and natural compound.
Earlier this month, the FDA issued another warning letter to USPlabs accusing the company of improperly using another new ingredient — called aegeline — in the reformulated version of OxyElite Pro and VERSA-1.
The compound, scientific literature shows, has been documented in parts of the Bael tree, which grows in Southeast Asia...
The "importance of establishing that products containing aegeline will reasonably be expected to be safe ... is particularly important" given the current outbreak of severe liver illnesses being investigated in Hawaii and other states, the FDA said in its Oct. 11 warning letter. The FDA said several findings "suggest a causal connection may exist" between the illnesses reported in Hawaii and consumers taking OxyElite Pro.
Source: Firm in outbreak probe has history of run-ins with FDA
