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Metabolife International ''pleased'' with GAO findings: company reaffirms that its ephedrine product is safe and effective.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 12-MAY-03
Format: Online - approximately 597 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
San Diego-based Metabolife International Inc. said in a recent statement it's pleased the U.S. General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, couldn't find a link between its popular dietary supplement and serious health problems.

The GAO reviewed records Metabolife's handed over from 14,684 phone complaints made between May 1997 to July 2002.

Investigators found there were 92 health complaints that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would qualify as serious, including 18 heart attacks, 26 strokes, 43 seizures. It also found five deaths.

"Other types of adverse...

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