Article: FDA plans ban on ephedra.(Health)(Regulators conclude that the herbal dietary supplement poses an unreasonable health risk)

Article: Public Rushes to Buy Ephedra Products Ahead of Ban.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... retailers are reporting a run on ephedra products as consumers make last-minute ... online supplement store, said ephedra products such as Extreme Ripped Force ... a record number of sales for ephedra products," the sales representative ...

Article: Boca Raton, Fla., Vitamin Maker Rexall Sundown Stops Selling ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... among the largest sellers of ephedra products, which at their peak in the ... brand Bechler used. Rexall's ephedra products are its Metab-O-LITE weight ... manufacturing and distributing ephedra products in the past two weeks, but ...

Article: Not All Ephedra Products Banned by FDA -- Is ...
PR Newswire;  April 27, 2004 ;     628 words ... ... On April 12, 2004, all Ephedra products were banned by the FDA. Or ... Kennedy explains why only some Ephedra products were banned while others remain ... answer is why were only some Ephedra products, especially the Ephedra weight ...

Article: Utah court rules on low-dose ephedra ...
Nutraceuticals World;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... as it applies to low-dose ephedra products. According to the American ... 29th to make "NO SALES" of ephedra products a condition of membership ... lawsuits regarding the use of ephedra products for damages in the millions ...

Article: Ephedra Products Thin Out; Braced for the Worst, ...
The Washington Post;  January 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... discontinue the manufacture of all ephedra products, effective in March. Saying that ... new program to analyze all herbal ephedra products to make sure that they, as required ... ephedra makers to voluntarily recall all ephedra products

Article: GNC to Remove All Ephedra Products from Its ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... said. Last year, GNC sales of ephedra products dropped 40 percent. "We believe ... direction." One of GNC's leading ephedra products is Xenadrine RFA-1, the diet ... proposed new warning labels on all ephedra products. Some consumer groups and medical ...

Article: FDA to ban ephedra products
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 12-31-2003 FDA to ban ephedra products -- Urges users to quit supplements ... Legislature banned the sale of ephedra products to minors in May and was considering ... sought to slap a warning label on ephedra products, using as evidence a Rand Corp ...