Kratom Industry Argues FDA Wants To Label All Products As Adverse Events Without Evidence

Week after publishing safety alert about OPMS Black Liquid Kratom “linked to serious adverse health effects, including death,” FDA announced market research “to understand and characterize emergent risk/safety and perceived benefits reportedly linked to kratom and psychedelics.” But it withdrew the study 10 days later.

The American Kratom Association urges the US Food and Drug Administration to do the same thing with a kratom safety alert that it did with a planned study of consumer knowledge of the botanical and that happened to its proposal to make kratom a controlled substance – withdraw the warning.

The FDA on 26 July the agency published a consumer warning about O.P.M.S. Black Liquid Kratom, which is sold online...

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