Amrion
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Pleads guilty June 22 to 1989 violation of FD&C Act and agrees to pay $46,000 fine, settling an investigation by FDA and the Department of Justice ("The Tan Sheet" June 6, In Brief). Known in 1989 as Bioenergy Nutrients, the company introduced into interstate commerce 751 units of Co-Enzyme Q10 that were "misbranded" because of "promotional materials that contained therapeutic claims," according to the plea agreement. In a June 23 press release, Amrion emphasized that the activities in question "occurred five and six years ago when the company was in its infancy and under different management"