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 in the firm's website: "prevents depression, hypertension, renal diseases, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart conditions, etc."

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.

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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