Herbalife released an official statement this weekend rebutting the claims made by the “Fraud Institute of America” saying that independent lab tests have confirmed that Herbalife products do NOT contain unsafe levels of lead.
In a recent compliant made by Barry Minkow and his Fraud Discovery Institute, Minkow cited two studies which claimed that 6 products sold by Herbalife contained dangerous amounts of Lead. Herbalife called that information “inaccurate and misleading” and went on to say that “there was never any health or safety issue with Herbalife products. The statement was sent out via e-mail.
Herbalife Chief Scientific Officer Steve Henig said in the statement that many natural and processed foods, “as well as our products, which are made with natural ingredients, contain extremely small amounts of naturally occurring lead that can be detected by today’s highly sensitive analytical methods but are insignificant in posing any risk to consumers.”
Herbalife has retested its products at independent labs in both the US (Covance) and Europe (Eurofins) and all products were proved to be compliant with all laws and regulations pertaining to health and safety standards.
The complaint made by the FDI and Minkow, was supposedly sent to the California’s Attorney Generals office, but Herbalife Spokeswoman, Barbara Henderson has said that to the best of her knowledge, nobody at the company has been contacted by the state of California, but added, that if contacted, the company would be happy to speak to anyone.
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