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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its first-ever mandatory recall for kratom-containing "food products", because the company selling them did not comply with the agency's request for a voluntary recall:
FDA orders kratom product recall over Salmonella; first such mandatory move in history
Federal drug regulators issued their first-ever mandatory recall Tuesday to a company selling several products containing the herbal supplement kratom and contaminated with Salmonella.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it issued the order because Triangle Pharmanaturals of Las Vegas refused to cooperate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last month that the kratom Salmonella outbreak was linked to 11 hospitalizations among 28 people who caught the strain.
The FDA is advising consumers to discard the products that are part of the mandatory recall, which it says include, but isn't limited to: Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Emerald Green, Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Ivory White, and Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Ruby Red. The company, which promotes itself as a consulting firm, may "manufacture, process, pack and/or hold additional brands of food products containing powdered kratom, FDA says.
Related:
FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal
FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid
CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom
(Score: 2, Disagree) by qzm on Thursday April 05 2018, @04:53AM (2 children)
Wow, quite some skin in this game havnt you..
Let me give you a little perspective perhaps.
Of course, the FACT that people are taking Kratom WITH opiates (often illegally sourced..) as a 'lifestyle'm thinking this makes them immune to addiction couldnt be the reason.
The FACT that sellers are claiming medical effects without the required evidence couldnt be the reason.
Face it, Kratom is NOT a good thing for society as a whole, and they are quite sensibly using this as a short term ban-hammer until they get the required legal proceedings in place to properly control it.
ANYTHING supporting the burgeoning illegal market in opiates, targeted directly at the young and middle class, is a bad thing, and Kratom falls directly into that category.
So yes, it is a pity for people who DO have enough self control to manage these things sensible that this is how things need to be, but that is a small minority.
As usual, something that should be perfectly ok is ruined by the idiots.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday April 05 2018, @09:46AM
That may be part of the FDA's motive here, but it's not one that they stated in this case [fda.gov]:
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Your opinion, not FACT.
It would be better to legalize/decriminalize all drugs, but allow the FDA to continue pursuing voluntary/mandatory recalls due to specific contamination concerns.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @09:49AM
Irrelevant, unless you are supporting the concept of humans-owning-humans, aka slavery, to declare fiat prohibitions on things you don't want other humans possessing or using.
Painkillers are a blessing from heaven. I want to have painkillers IMMEDIATELY available should I suddenly find myself in serious pain. I am forbidden at gunpoint from possessing such items as morphine and other opium products by USian agents, and so I researched natural painkillers and found that the leaves of the kratom tree can be used for just such a purpose. I've tested them, they work, and I've bought myself an emergency supply.
If you try to forcibly take my painkillers away from me, I will kill you. Deal with it.