Overview of adding Picamilon to GNC punishment
On October 23, 2015, health food company GNC was sued by the local judicial department for adding prohibited ingredients to dietary health products. By the time the report was released, Jiangxi's share price had plunged 17%.
Oregon attorney general Ellen Rosenblum claimed in a court document that the health product retailer violated Oregon's illegal trade act law and was suspected of selling dietary health products containing dangerous additives.
According to court documents, the products sold by Jiangxi contain Picamilon or amphetamine-like synthetic chemical ingredient (bumper), both of which are listed as illegal additives.
Although Picamilon is used as a prescription drug in some countries, it is drug contraband in the United States. The synthetic chemical components of amphetamines are banned by the World Anti-Doping organization.
Rosenblum said that between January 2013 and June 2015, Jiangxi sold more than 3000 products containing Picamilon and 500 products containing synthetic amphetamine-like chemicals in Oregon. Jiangxi advertises that these ingredients are legal dietary health product additives.
Since the beginning of the year, Jiangxi's share price has fallen by 25%.
The Oregon attorney general's allegations have no legal basis. Jiangxi will do its best to defend these allegations. Given that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibits the addition of bumper and Picamilon to food, Jiangxi's will move quickly to remove all products containing these ingredients from the shelves, Jiangxi's said in a company statement
According to CBS News, another health care brand in the United States, vitamin shop, decided not to sell products containing bumpers at the beginning of this year.
Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a document warning five companies to immediately stop selling products containing bumper and believe that bumper does not meet the definition of dietary additives. Previously, Harvard Medical School found in a study that a large number of weight loss and health care products contain bumper, and most of these products disguise bumper as a plant extract called Acacia.
The annals of internal medicine, published in May this year, recorded a case in which a woman died of a hemorrhagic stroke after taking exercise health products containing a high-dose bumper
What product is Pikamilone?
Picamilon is a brain function-improving drug developed by Russia. It increases cerebral blood flow by strongly expanding cerebral blood vessels. This product has the characteristics of rapid action, long duration, anti-hypoxia, anti-oxidation, and so on; At the same time, the molecules that contain γ- Aminobutyric acid have a slight sedative effect on the central nervous system, but it is not sleepy. Moreover, in the treatment of ophthalmic diseases, Picamilon can be used in the comprehensive treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma and retinal neurovascular diseases. Application in the treatment of urological diseases for patients with dysuria, from 3-year-old children to adults, Picamilon can improve the adaptability of the bladder. In foreign countries, Picamilon is widely recommended for the prevention and treatment of migraine. Picamilon tablets can be used for the treatment of anxiety, fear, irritability, irritability, and other syndromes. Taking Picamilon can also treat acute alcoholism and relieve chronic alcoholism, neurasthenia, psychological trauma, recurrent psychosis, and alcoholic encephalopathy.
What are food additives?
Substances added to food to maintain or improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, or appearance of food are called food additives. Some food additives have been used for centuries to preserve food - such as salt (for meat such as bacon or dried fish), sugar (for jam), or sulfur dioxide (for wine).
Over time, many different food additives have been developed to meet the needs of food production, because large-scale food processing is very different from small-scale home preparation. Additives are needed to ensure that processed foods remain safe and in good condition throughout the process from factories or industrial kitchens, through transportation to warehouses and stores, and finally to consumers.
The rational use of food additives must meet the following conditions: there are technical needs, will not mislead consumers, and play a clear technical function, such as maintaining the nutritional quality of food or improving the stability of food.
Food additives can be derived from plants, animals, or minerals, or they can be synthetic. They are deliberately added to food for some technical purposes, which consumers often take for granted. Thousands of food additives are currently used, all aimed at making food safer or more attractive.
How do evaluate the behavior of indiscriminately adding food additives？
In modern society, food additives are everywhere and everywhere. They have been rigorously verified before being included in the legal scope. As long as they are added according to national standards in food production, there will be no safety incidents. However, after a series of food safety incidents that make people talk about color change, we were told that gorgeous colors are often the disguise of poisons. However, those children who were accused of being the culprits of Sudan red and melamine were not food additives, and the additives were pitifully wronged， Based on the above views, please think about food additives。