Hydroxycut lawsuit
The makers of Hydroxycut have had legal problems for years now, but that hasn’t stopped them from filling up shelf space at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS and GNC. Each lawsuit is followed by a reformulation of the product, until consumers suffer and the FDA catches up with them again and again. This time, a Hydroxycut lawsuit made a major step forward as a federal court ruling allowed the class action against Iovate Health Sciences to proceed.
Iovate Health Sciences, maker of Hydroxycut diet supplement which is taken as a weight loss aid, are defendants in a Hydroxycut class action lawsuit that alleges their product caused liver damage and at least one death.
The FDA removed Hydroxycut from the market in 2009, but Iovate Health Sciences reformulated the product and now it’s basically a caffeine pill with some herbs mixed in. The supplement company seemingly hopes to ride on the reputation of previous formulations of Hydroxycut, which then contained ephedra.
Ephedra was an ingredient that became banned by the FDA because it triggered heart attacks and caused at least one death. But from Ephedra to the next active ingredient that replaced Ephedra, garcinia cambogia, to the present formulation of caffeine and herbs, Iovate Health Sciences has maintained throughout that Hydroxycut is clinically proven to help people lose weight fast. Their claims are not backed up by any scientific studies and are completely over exaggerated, according to a former Iovate Health Sciences research director.
