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Everything’s bigger in Texas — even the FDA warning letters.
One such missive to Corpus Christi-based X2Zero approached 10 pages and listed a number of violations related to the company’s marketing of its various weight-loss and male enhancement pills, including the pictured T Drive.
In addition to a plethora of Only FDA-approved drugs can be marketed as having the ability to diagnose, cure, treat, prevent or mitigate a disease., the FDA warned X2Zero that several supplements contain undeclared sibutramine, which poses an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, and undeclared sildenafil, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in FDA-approved Viagra.
What’s more, the FDA tallied six violations of Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations related to shortcomings regarding quality control.
Remember, readers, marketing supplements as having the ability to treat, cure, alleviate the symptoms of, or prevent developing diseases and disorders is simply not permitted by law. If a supplement really could do all that, then it would be a drug subject to rigorous study and testing to gain FDA approval.
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