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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) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 04 2018, @09:20PM (2 children)
I had a lot more sympathy before they hospitalized 11 people.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Wednesday April 04 2018, @09:45PM
Frankly, so did I. But the world already knows the FDA is acting in bad faith; that's not necessarily true of Triangle Pharma.
Ordinarily "refusing to cooperate with the FDA" would be an instant sign of bad faith, but in this case, not cooperating with someone who's trying to exterminate you could be good, bad, or indifferent; no way to tell.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pipedwho on Wednesday April 04 2018, @10:39PM
The summary of the 'evidence' provided in the various articles that came out about this didn't support the conclusion. The result was buried so deep in the noise, that you could draw any conclusion you want from that level of confidence. This is not even P hacking. This is completely ignoring the whole concept of P.
Millions of people are hospitalised over the same time period for various cases of food poisoning. Yet, somehow, they establish that 11 of them were due to Kratom (in any form - including processed tablets), and then for some reason decide that these 11 deserve a recall of a product that may be some small coincidence be the cause. With such a small sample group from potentially 10s of thousands of people consuming the product, they conclude that the Kratom was definitely the cause, ignoring the far more likely causes. At the same time ignoring that lettuce and other fresh fruit and vegetables are harvested and prepared in pretty much exactly the same way. It's like putting a recall on all heads of lettuce, because someone bought a contaminated lettuce from their local grocer (assuming the contamination actually came from the grower and didn't arise through exposure by the end customer).
Then the internet echo chamber makes out like 11 people were directly affected without any of the other (non)supporting 'facts'. And true to the internet echo chamber, it is echoed in the parent post like it was established fact.
So, no, your loss of sympathy bares no basis in anything but personal perception.