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FDA Puts Hold on Mich. Infant Supplement

February 25, 2004 07:47 AM EST

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - Consumers are angry and the co-owners of a Macomb
County company are frustrated over a federal ban on the production and
distribution of their dietary supplement for infants.

The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 23 warned consumers not to feed
Better than Formula Ultra Infant Immune Booster 117 to their infants.

Although the product, sold over the Internet by NSP Research Nutrition of
Mount Clemens, is labeled as a dietary supplement, it may in fact be an
infant formula, the FDA said.

The term "Better than Formula" in the product name describes it as a
substitute for, or alternative to, other infant formulas, the agency said.

The FDA doesn't approve dietary supplements before they are marketed to the
public, but baby formula must be reviewed by the agency before it can be
sold. The FDA will take action against dietary supplement products it
considers unsafe or makes false and misleading claims.

The FDA sent agents and investigators to the Better Than Formula warehouse
in Detroit to confiscate the product it still had in stock, NSP Research
Nutrition co-owner Ron Kosloff said.

"We call it a dietary supplement and the FDA calls it a formula," Kosloff
told The Detroit News for a Wednesday story. "The bottom line is, it hasn't
hurt anybody and only helped people."
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Phyllis


--- Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
--- Glendale, AZ, USA
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