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Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by bradfa »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #43

I don’t think Amazon should have any protections for being a marketplace. Especially since we all found out about co-mingling, and how reviews are transferable between vendors and sometimes between products. They should be liable for any damages caused by these drugs, as well as patent/copyright/trademark infringement for any counterfeit products. I don’t feel the same for ebay, reverb, or facebook. I’m not sure wher…

At least Walmart lets you easily filter search results for only things sold by Walmart itself. That makes it fine by me to be both a seller and marketplace. Amazon does not make such filtering easy at all.

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

TaylorSwift wrote: post #86

Most supplements are garbage. Since they don't actually work, most people would never know if you replaced their magnesium or calcium supplement with chalk. Some supplements do work, but since they're not regulated, they're drowned out by nonsense and noise. OK, so you don't want to be a rube?...you do your research and then piece of shit fitness influencers tell you "ohh...that vitamin you bought form Walgreens or C…

> Most supplements are garbage. Since they don't actually work, most people would never know if you replaced their magnesium or calcium supplement with chalk.

Whether or not that's true, if you replaced someone's magnesium supplement with viagra, you could seriously hurt them.

>> FDA confirmed through laboratory analyses that the [...] products, purchased on www.amazon.com, contained [...] the active ingredients in the FDA-approved prescription drugs Viagra and Cialis, respectively, used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED). These undeclared ingredients may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.

Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by alexpotato »

ta988 wrote: post #93
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #43

I don’t think Amazon should have any protections for being a marketplace. Especially since we all found out about co-mingling, and how reviews are transferable between vendors and sometimes between products. They should be liable for any damages caused by these drugs, as well as patent/copyright/trademark infringement for any counterfeit products. I don’t feel the same for ebay, reverb, or facebook. I’m not sure wher…

Reviews are transferable? I was wondering because many reviews I have seen don't seem to be for the product I am looking at at all.

A personal example:

- I order a large tweezer for cooking etc

- It works great!

- End up losing it so "order again" a year later and it's clearly a different product/manufacturer etc

Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by inetknght »

enlightenedfool wrote: post #52
throw__away7391 wrote: post #5

Nothing bought on Amazon should be consumed or applied topically or otherwise come into prolonged contact with your body. I learned this the hard way a few years back with some counterfeit shampoo that severely burned my scalp after a single use.

Did you take any action at all? Sounds serious enough for legal action.

> Did you take any action at all? Sounds serious enough for legal action.

A lot of people don't have time, or money, to risk legal action.

Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by partiallypro »

I bought a lotion from Amazon recently that smells like Windex. I need to go to the store and see if the lotion in store has the same smell. I have a feeling it could be counterfeit, as I can't see this particular maker making a product with that smell.

Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by y-c-o-m-b »

throw__away7391 wrote: post #5

Nothing bought on Amazon should be consumed or applied topically or otherwise come into prolonged contact with your body. I learned this the hard way a few years back with some counterfeit shampoo that severely burned my scalp after a single use.

I stopped buying health and beauty stuff on Amazon altogether due to the counterfeits or people returning items by replacing the actual product with something else which I ultimately end up getting. I had too many instances with vitamins and such where the labels and seals were sketchy, damaged, or didn't exist. Same with shampoos, lotions, face-washes, soaps, detergents, hot-tub supplies, etc. Reporting to the seller or Amazon was a pointless exercise as often times they'd shrug it off.

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Post by gukov »

ta988 wrote: post #93
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #43

I don’t think Amazon should have any protections for being a marketplace. Especially since we all found out about co-mingling, and how reviews are transferable between vendors and sometimes between products. They should be liable for any damages caused by these drugs, as well as patent/copyright/trademark infringement for any counterfeit products. I don’t feel the same for ebay, reverb, or facebook. I’m not sure wher…

Reviews are transferable? I was wondering because many reviews I have seen don't seem to be for the product I am looking at at all.

I often see reviews for a model that's similar but still different. Not being a seller, I'm guessing the exploit is around labelling a different model / product as a colour variation of the product they're trying to leech off, and voila: now the crappy product has the same rating / reviews as the original, better product.

Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by exegete »

TaylorSwift wrote: post #86

Most supplements are garbage. Since they don't actually work, most people would never know if you replaced their magnesium or calcium supplement with chalk. Some supplements do work, but since they're not regulated, they're drowned out by nonsense and noise. OK, so you don't want to be a rube?...you do your research and then piece of shit fitness influencers tell you "ohh...that vitamin you bought form Walgreens or C…

>Now that I'm over 40, I do everything right (daily exercise, eat healthy, get sleep, etc) and still feel like shit most of the day....same with most my age...

I’m nearing 40. Are you sure it’s normal to feel terrible most of the day when eating right, exercising, and getting enough sleep? This doesn’t sound normal to me.

Re: Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

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Post by lostlogin »

ryandrake wrote: post #66
tikkun wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate about counterfeit products being sold under "sold by amazon.com"? That's surprising to me, I treat that as a sign of something being non-counterfeit.

Amazon commingles[1] inventory. So if there are N vendors selling an item, including Amazon.com, all N inventories just get mixed together at the warehouses. So if some M of those N are counterfeit, there's no way to know. "As an example, if I sell Duracell C batteries on Amazon through their “Shipping Fulfilled by Amazon” — which I must do to receive Prime shipping designation — I need to send my batteries to an Ama…

This makes it rather attractive for sellers to add in some cheap fakes - thanks for the explanation.

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Post by 1920musicman »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #43

I don’t think Amazon should have any protections for being a marketplace. Especially since we all found out about co-mingling, and how reviews are transferable between vendors and sometimes between products. They should be liable for any damages caused by these drugs, as well as patent/copyright/trademark infringement for any counterfeit products. I don’t feel the same for ebay, reverb, or facebook. I’m not sure wher…

I am not aware of any lawsuits against distributors/retailers but supplement companies have been successfully sued in the past. One famous case is Yoel Romero vs Gold Star Performance Products (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2838434-ufc-fighter-yoel...).
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