Sunset Natural Injunction Continues Rise In DoJ Supplement GMP Complaints
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
After litigating six civil complaints in 2014, DoJ’s uptick in bringing criminal and civil cases concerning supplement GMP violations in 2015 comes with the industry’s Senate champions, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Martin Heinrich, D-NM, urging prosecutions against marketers of spiked products.
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