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As FDA issued a comprehensive ban on ephedra for sale, the natural reaction from pharmaceutical manufacturers evoked.
2005
To oppose the ban, another ephedra product manufacturer, Nutraceutical Corporation came forward and filed a suit in Federal District Court of Utah. Nutraceutical Corporation used to promote a dietary supplement that contained very small quantity of ephedra. Judge Tena Campbell overrules the ephedra universal ban by the FDA on 14th April 2005.
Judge Tena Campbell ruled in the favor of Nutraceutical Corporation saying FDA had taken decision on the analysis of risk and benefit which could not be considered appropriate for dietary products as Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, 1994 (DSHEA) states otherwise. Moreover, to implement ban under DSHEA, the FDA should have supported its ban with sufficient evidence of specific amount of dose finding that could prove fatal. As FDA failed to prove the ephedra consumption of quantity less than 10 mg per day could prove fatal, dietary products containing less amount of ephedrine alkloids had been allowed again.
2006
FDA had filed an appeal against the ruling by Judge Tena Campbell in a federal appeals court and the court overturned the ruling and upheld the initial comprehensive ban on all ephedra supplements regardless of the dosage quantity on 17th August, 2006. The federal appeals court stated in its ruling that the administrative record accounting for a whooping 133,000 pages is sufficient enough to support the findings that ephedrine alkloids consumed can pose an unreasonable risk of illness and injury regardless of its quantity of intake. The said document contained approximately 19000 reports of adverse events related to ephedrine alkloids’ consumption. It also further stated that analysis of risk and benefit parameters was necessary.
On the line line of this ruling, FDA declared all doses of ephedrine alkloids present in dietary supplements as unsafe for human health and the sale of such products would be seen as illegal that would be subject to law enforcement action.
2007
Responding this, Nutraceutical Corporation again filed a suit for rehearing in front of the tenth circuit of the US Court of Appeals, however the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the petition.
