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drug_recall ephedrineMetabolife International was founded by Michael Ellis in 1995 and has been highly profitable selling their ephedra-based diet pills, with annual sales topping $1 billion according to Metabolife in 1999. Metabolife is now the nation’s leading maker of ephedra supplements. Ellis, a former police officer, has a criminal record for a 1990 drug-related charge involving the illegal manufacture and sale of methamphetamine, an illegal drug that can be produced from ephedra. Since at least 1997, the FDA has tried obtaining the Metabolife adverse event reports, but Metabolife has refused and resisted.
A criminal investigation is now underway to determine if Metabolife International and Ellis lied when telling the FDA they had received no reports of adverse Metabolife health effects. It was only after the FDA requested the Department of Justice pursue a criminal investigation of Metabolife that Metabolife finally made the reports available. The FDA found Metabolife’s offer to make these reports available to be “disingenuous” considering the long history of Metabolife’s uncooperative behavior.
The FDA has collected reports of more than 100 deaths among ephedra users, as well as reports of heart attacks, seizures, strokes, and other health problems dating back since 1994. Since ephedra is a plant-based substance, Metabolife and other ephedra-based products are not regulated. This means that despite what is found in the Metabolife criminal investigation, under the law the FDA cannot check the safety or effectiveness of herbal products and may not require herbal makers to disclose health hazards they find.
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