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July
30, 2003
"San Diego reporter sued by an ephedra
containing weight loss supplement company"
Nutraquest is charging a reporter from the San Diego Union
Tribune and a lawyer for giving biased coverage of a class
action lawsuit filed against Cytodyne. A judge had ordered
Cytodyne to pay $12.5 million to California consumers
because the company used misleading information about
Xenadrine RFA-1, its’ ephedra weight loss supplement.
The judge thought the company had exaggerated the effectiveness
of the ephedra supplement, as well as making false claims
about the safety of it.
Cytodyne still denies the charges and is planning on
appealing the decision. Ephedra has been controversial,
and the company has since changed its name to Nutraquest
and phased out the ephedra based diet pills. The ephedra
legal action is based on claims that the reporter had
a conflict of interest in covering the company because
her husband is an executive at a direct competitor of
Cytodyne and the ephedra lawsuits claims the lawyer
that filed the California ephedra class action lawsuit
leaked significant information to the reporter to “publicize
his name and reputation”.
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