The FDA Says a Dallas-Made Bodybuilding Supplement May Be
Causing Hepatitis  Categories: Healthcare  Here's the good news
for customers of Dallas-based USP Labs. Its dietary supplements
are no longer linked to fatal heart attacks. The FDA made sure
of that this summer when it made the company destroy $8 million
worth of product containing dimethlyamylamine, or DMAA, a
compound that had been linked to 86 reports of illness and
death.  And here's the bad news. The FDA thinks USP Labs may
have replaced DMAA with a new active ingredient: hepatitis.  The
federal agency issued a warning on Wednesday linking the
company's bodybuilding supplement OxyElite Pro to an outbreak of
non-viral hepatitis in Hawaii. Of 29 patients hospitalized with
acute heptatitis so far, the state's health department says that
two dozen had used the powder. Two of those have required liver
transplants. One has died.  See also: FDA Makes Dallas
Supplement Maker Destroy $8 Million Worth of Bodybuilding Powder
The public health investigation