FORMI Weight Loss Complex, reviewed against the SlimBiome trial
Holland and Barrett's new own-label sachet is built on a fibre complex with a real open-access human trial behind it. That trial ran 150 minutes and never weighed anybody.
Weight-loss supplements, weighed honestly.
Two 'Esbelta' products, one named seller, and five substances the labels did not name
The FDA notified consumers about Esbelta Intense Loss and Esbelta Chupapanza Flat Belly on 18 August. This is not substitution and it is not underdosing — it is undeclared pharmaceutical ingredients, which no amount of label arithmetic would have caught.
Three more 'tejocote root' products, and the plant inside was yellow oleander
Reported on 12 August: three more online weight-loss products added to the FDA's yellow oleander alert, which now runs to 25. The failure here is not a dose problem — it is that the plant in the capsule was not the plant on the label.
SlimTide, reviewed: a dozen named ingredients and not one published amount
A July launch release for a probiotic-and-botanical weight-management capsule puts 'Supplement Facts' in its own headline. It names three bacterial strains and nine other ingredients, and attaches a number to none of them.
OxyElite returns with a new panel behind an old name
A famous stimulant brand is back for Europe with a fully disclosed panel. The disclosure is genuinely good; the case published for three of the inclusions is not.
When the brand name is the health claim: the ASA on GuLP-1
A May ruling held that a weight-loss supplement's own name would be read as a health claim the advertiser could not show was authorised — and that an injection-pen comparison table put it in the territory of prescription medicines.
Green tea extract supplements, reviewed with the safety literature attached
A staple of fat-burner formulas, and the one ingredient here where the most important published finding is about harm rather than benefit.
'Clinically studied' is doing heavy lifting on weight-loss labels
Two words that can mean a rigorous trial or almost nothing at all. Here is what the phrase does not commit a brand to.