FDA seeks injunction against N.J. supplement firms
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Following an FDA investigation, the Department of Justice files a complaint for permanent injunction against Patterson, N.J., businessman Mohamed S. Desoky and his supplement firms - Quality Formulation Laboratories Inc., American Sports Nutrition Inc. and Sports Nutrition International LLC - for failing to "correct filthy conditions" or to declare the presence of allergens in products. The complaint, filed July 1 in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, alleges the firms failed to meet good manufacturing practices after an FDA inspection found unclean processing equipment and "live and dead rodents and rodent urine, feces and gnaw holes on bags of product." According to a July 10 FDA release, because the firms failed to make corrections an injunction is needed to stop them from manufacturing and distributing products until corrections are made. FDA said Desoky's firms manufacture supplements and protein powders sold in the U.S. and export products for private-label customers