Total Body Essential Nutrition Recalls Two Products
Total Body Essential Nutrition Inc. of Woodstock, GA. has voluntarily recalled two drinkable dietary supplements. Allegedly some consumers have been sickened by them from high amounts of certain minerals.
The Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the state health departments are investigating more than a hundred cases of acute poisoning from the products.
"Total Body Formula" dietary supplement in tropical orange and peach nectar flavors in the eight- and 32-ounce bottles and the 32-ounce bottle of "Total Body Mega Formula" in orange/tangerine flavor should not be consumed due to excess amounts of selenium and chromium, according to warnings from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
The Food and Drug Administration has investigated the products and found extremely high levels of selenium -- up to 40,800 micrograms per recommended serving, or more than 200 times the amount of selenium per serving indicated on the products' labels.
