Prop 65
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Three supplement ingredients - DHEA, androstenedione and Tribulus Terrestris - are challenged under California Proposition 65 by a group called Consumer Cause, represented by Los Angeles attorney Morse Mehrban. Consumer Cause charges the three ingredients expose consumers to "testosterone and its esters." In a June 27 letter to California Deputy Attorney General Ed Weil, NNFA and CRN say the notices of intent to sue are "invalid and should be retracted." The ingredients cannot expose consumers to testosterone as humans possess testosterone in their bodies naturally, the groups state, adding none of the ingredients contain testosterone. To date, the group has filed no lawsuits