The Recall Desk

FDA (Food) recall action 66343

Borinquen Natural recalled 4 products on 2013-12-11

The FDA (Food) publishes a recall like this one as 4 separate product records. They share a firm, a date and a cause; this page is all of them in one place, so the scale of the action is visible rather than spread across 4 pages.

Products
4
Announced
2013-12-11
Critical
0
Units
5,672

Why these products were recalled

Distributed dietary supplements with the following claims: "drops the fat, expels toxins, break down fat, block carbohydrates, suppresses appetite, suppresses fat absorption, creates a balance in the thyroid". In addition, the firm's website claimed to repair body tissue, such as minor ulcers and to contain anti-cancer compounds.

Distributed dietary supplements with the following claims in the firm's website: "prevents depression, hypertension, renal diseases, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart conditions, etc."

The agency’s own wording, quoted from the enforcement report.

The unit total adds up the quantities the agency stated for each product. Where a product record gave no figure, or gave a weight rather than a count, it contributes nothing — so the real total is at least this, never less.

States named across these recalls

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