Time's Up For Sundial Herbs – US Firm Recalls All Products Seven Years After FDA’s Warning

FDA officials, following each Sundial Herbs response since 2013 to the agency stating that it had corrected problems identified during inspections, found continued violations on the firm’s website and in its store. Investigators purchased the firm’s products with violative claims as recently as February.

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Sundial Herbs & Herbal Products Enterprises Inc. is recalling all its supplements and other natural remedies “to be in compliance with” with US food and drug regulations more than seven years it was advised it was noncompliant by using drug claims.

A federal judge in May approved the Food and Drug Administration’s motion for summary judgement and rejected the Bronx, N.Y., firm’s counter motion for summary ruling to dismiss the agency’s complaint filed in 2018

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