FDA Says No To Street Drug Alternatives Posing As Supplements
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The agency warns Arco Globus Trading LLC to immediately stop marketing purported dietary supplements that it promotes as alternatives to illicit street drugs, including one with an active pharmaceutical antihistamine. The firm's Legal Lean Syrup and Coco Loko are unapproved and misbranded new drugs, the agency says.
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