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LifeTime Nutrition (May 04, 2006)

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Starting date:: May 04, 2006
Posting date:: June 12, 2006
Type of communication:: Drug Recall
Subcategory:: Drugs
Hazard classification:: Type II
Source of recall:: Health Canada
Issue:: Product Safety
Audience:: General Public, Healthcare Professionals, Hospitals
Identification number:: RA-2006A137

Reason
Depth of distribution
Affected products

Reason

The Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) has issued letters to all L-arginine product licence holders dated March 31, 2006, advising of new information published in the Journal of the American Medical Association of possible increased mortality in patients taking natural health products containing L-arginine, when sold as a single ingredient, following an acute myocardial infarction. NHPD no longer considers theses products safe for consumers with cardiovascular diseases and related disorders without a contraindication warning statements on the label. The recommended contraindication is to state, " Do not use if you have had a myocardial infarction (heart attack)".

Depth of distribution

Distributed to one retail store in British Columbia.

Affected products