An ongoing investigation from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed quite a few “dietary dietary supplements” bought on-line contained yellow oleander (Cascabela thevetia), a poisonous plant generally cultivated as a decorative.
In September 2023, FDA issued a client warning about tejocote (Crataegus mexicana) dietary supplements bought from on-line retailers similar to Amazon and Etsy. Tejocote, often known as Mexican hawthorn, is usually marketed as a weight-loss complement. As of Dec. 3, 2024, FDA examined no less than 18 samples, all of which contained yellow oleander.
“FDA evaluation has decided that sure merchandise labeled as tejocote root or Brazil seed are adulterated as a result of they have been examined and located to be substituted with yellow oleander, a toxic plant native to Mexico and Central America and a poisonous substance of concern to public well being officers. In different phrases, the examined merchandise that have been labeled as tejocote or Brazil seed are literally poisonous yellow oleander,” FDA mentioned in a press release.
Based on Mount Sinai Well being System, yellow oleander poisoning could cause signs similar to arrhythmia, low blood strain, blurred imaginative and prescient, hives, diarrhea, nausea, abdomen ache, headache, lethargy, dizziness, melancholy and loss of life.
“The FDA continues to obtain opposed occasion stories associated to the merchandise recognized on this Security Alert. The company is reminding customers to keep away from these merchandise as a result of they comprise poisonous yellow oleander and may trigger neurologic, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular opposed well being results that could be extreme, and even deadly,” FDA mentioned in a press release. “The company continues to speak with corporations promoting these merchandise. Whereas a number of have initiated voluntary remembers, the FDA is anxious that merchandise containing poisonous yellow oleander stay on {the marketplace}.”
Encourage Me Ashley, an organization primarily based in San Antonio, TX, issued a voluntary recall on 11 of its VidaSlim model merchandise after FDA’s evaluation.
“To this point, VidaSlim has not acquired stories of sicknesses associated to the consumption of this product. Within the curiosity of security, this recall is being carried out with the information of the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration,” VidaSlim mentioned in a press release.
For extra data, go to www.fda.gov.
