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Sheep Placenta Extract Supplement Firm Has Problems In Basement Facility

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA warning identifies Perfect Choice/Nutricos Ceuticals as operating at a Lower Manhattan basement in a block with restaurants, massage parlors and other service businesses and boarded-up storefronts. As other own-labelers have done, it failed to conduct its own tests of products from contract manufacturer.

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The latest US own-label dietary supplement marketer warned about manufacturing quality-control distributes products containing sheep placenta extract from a basement below a gym in a New York business district. Perfect Choice Trading Inc. and Nutricos Ceuticals Inc. also made "cell therapy" and other drug claims for its TR Zell P-Centra Forte supplement, says the Food and Drug Administration.

A warning letter the agency published on 30 July identifies Perfect Choice/Nutricos Ceuticals as operating at a basement address on...

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