Reported Dec 25, 2013 · Terminated

Bethel Advance (bitter orange, mulberry leaf, cassia seed extract, jobstear seed, spirulina, starch, kola nut)…

Bethel Nutritional Consulting, Inc.

High riskUsing this product could cause serious injury, illness or death — stop using it now.

What you should do

Stop using the affected lot and contact the recalling firm for the return or refund process. Check the FDA enforcement report for lot-level detail.

Firm contact: Bethel Nutritional Consulting, Inc · 599 W 190th St Ste 1 · New York, NY · 10040-3577

Is this the product you have?

  • Bethel Advance (bitter orange, mulberry leaf, cassia seed extract, jobstear seed, spirulina, starch, kola nut) capsules, 400 mg, 30-count bottles
  • Distributed byBethel, Inc
  • Tel
    • (212) 568-5330
    • UPC 1 60126 41750 9
Lot codes and dates
    • Lot 10092011
    • Exp 2014
Amount recalled
13,266 bottles

This recall covers 2 products

The agency filed one notice per product. You are reading one of them; the other one is below.

Where it was sold

  • Nationwide
  • PR

Why it was recalled

Stop using this product now

Marketed Without An Approved NDA/ANDA: FDA analyses detected the presence of phenolphthalein, N-di-Desmethylsibutramine, and trace amounts of sibutramine and N-Desmethylsibutramine. Sibutramine and phenolphthalein were previously available drug products but were removed from the U.S. market making these products unapproved new drugs.

Using this product could cause serious injury, illness or death — stop using it now.

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Where this came from

Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA)

Read the FDA (openFDA drug enforcement) notice

Notice updated May 30, 2018 · Data as of Sep 19, 6:24 PM UTC

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