s most of our regular customers know,
Alpha Omega Labs kept some administrative functions
in Nassau, Bahamas; and the balance of its operation
in Lake Charles, Louisiana, up until it was raided
by U.S. Government authorities on September 17, 2003.
AO shipped product both to end users and distributors around the world. During 2002-2003, AO used RisingSun Health, a company in Montana, run by an aspiring politico named Toby McAdams, to handle Alpha Omega shipments within the U.S. The relationship soured in the summer of 2003 because of payables in arrears with McAdams' operation that topped $9,000 (of which $6,000 is still owed to AO). On the surface of things, this is mindless gossip and shouldn't pertain to any of our customers. What DOES pertain to our customers, however, is the illegal use of our trademark and the deliberate adulteration and mislabelling of the product. Mr. McAdams has been bragging that the FDA has assisted him in disposing of AO in the U.S. and "approves" of his Cansema. We have serious doubts as to the truthfulness of this statement -- however, if true, it represents a level of deceitfulness in dealing with the public that exceeds anything even WE have seen on the part of this unscrupulous agency. We received the above product from an unhappy customer in Tennessee who wanted us to evaluate it. The following evaluation is organoleptic (there was no time to do analytical chemical analysis) by two of our most experienced herbalists, including Greg Caton himself. Here is their (and our) joint statement: "By any standard that the FDA has ever set, RisingSun Health's product is both "mislabelled" and "misbranded" -- indeed, to such an extreme degree that is cannot be anything but deliberate. Small items may have been perhaps an oversight: the lack of a net weight, the use of the word "dosage" instead of "instruction" for something that is not supposed to be an "unapproved drug." These are triffling matters -- again, perhaps an oversight. |
"The problem is that the product does not contain zinc chloride. It's on the label, but not in the product. The product says it contains NDGA. It contains none. It says it contains bloodroot. It contains none. It says it contains galangal. It contains none. The presence of graviola leaf or bitter melon is debatable but cannot be readily determined organoleptically. |
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