Gaspari Nutrition Incorproated, 575 Prospect Street - Suite 230, Lakewood, NJ, announced today that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of all Lot Codes of the company's dietary supplement product sold under the name Novedex XT, which was marketed "for increasing natural testosterone production" and contains 3,17-keto-etiocholetriene, also known as ATD, an anti-aromatase. Gaspari Nutrition is conducting this consumer level recall after being informed by representatives of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that 3,17-keto-etiocholetriene does not meet the definition of a dietary ingredient and therefore the product is in violation of provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Potential adverse events associated with the use of anti-aromatases could include the following: decreased rate of bone maturation and growth, decreased sperm production, infertility, aggressive behavior, adrenal insufficiency, kidney failure, and liver dysfunction. Consumers with liver, kidney, adrenal, or prostate abnormalities are at higher risk for developing adverse events. Gaspari has received no serious adverse events in over five years of marketing Novadex XT.
Novedex XT had been sold internationally and domestically, to distributors, wholesalers, retail stores and direct to consumers, but was discontinued by Gaspari Nutrition for domestic sales on October 4th 2010. The product was sold in blue bottles with a black cap, containing sixty (60) capsules.
Consumers who have Novedex XT in their possession should stop using it immediately. If consumers experience any adverse side effects due to consumption of this product, they should immediately contact a physician.
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GeneScience of China ( maker of Jintropin HGH ) pleads guilty in US court gets $7.5 million fine.
A Chinese company and its chief executive have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of illegally selling human growth hormone and will pay a total $7.5 million.
Lei Jin and his company, Genescience Pharmaceutical Co., were scheduled to enter the guilty pleas and be sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I. The company has agreed to plead to a felony and Jin to a misdemeanor, according to court documents.
Genescience Pharmaceutical sold the drug under the brand name Jintropin without approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The firm was charged in 2007 during a massive crackdown on illegal sports doping, dubbed Operation Raw Deal, in which 120 people were arrested, and 11.4 million doses of drugs were seized.
The investigation crippled the company, which the government believes is responsible for nearly 90 percent of the illegal human growth hormone found in the United States, said Jason Simonian, a special agent with the Food and Drug Administration. Investigators used wire transfers and e-mails from the company to track shipments across the world, Simonian said.
"We've vertically taken out every step of the process," Simonian said. "It shows the bad guys that no matter where they are in the world, we have the ability to reach out and take their money, and I think that's one of the most significant parts of the case."
As part of the plea agreement, the company and the executive will forfeit $4.5 million and set up a $3 million fund that will work against doping in sports by providing grants for education and scientific research. The fund will be administered by the Rhode Island Foundation.
Lawyers for the company and for Jin did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The FDA closely regulates the use of human growth hormone, allowing it to be prescribed for certain medical conditions but not for anti-aging, bodybuilding or weight loss.
Jintropin is widely used to build muscle mass and, in 2007, actor Sylvester Stallone was convicted of importing dozens of vials of the drug into Australia. He later defended its use.
Lei Jin and his company, Genescience Pharmaceutical Co., were scheduled to enter the guilty pleas and be sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I. The company has agreed to plead to a felony and Jin to a misdemeanor, according to court documents.
Genescience Pharmaceutical sold the drug under the brand name Jintropin without approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The firm was charged in 2007 during a massive crackdown on illegal sports doping, dubbed Operation Raw Deal, in which 120 people were arrested, and 11.4 million doses of drugs were seized.
The investigation crippled the company, which the government believes is responsible for nearly 90 percent of the illegal human growth hormone found in the United States, said Jason Simonian, a special agent with the Food and Drug Administration. Investigators used wire transfers and e-mails from the company to track shipments across the world, Simonian said.
"We've vertically taken out every step of the process," Simonian said. "It shows the bad guys that no matter where they are in the world, we have the ability to reach out and take their money, and I think that's one of the most significant parts of the case."
As part of the plea agreement, the company and the executive will forfeit $4.5 million and set up a $3 million fund that will work against doping in sports by providing grants for education and scientific research. The fund will be administered by the Rhode Island Foundation.
Lawyers for the company and for Jin did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The FDA closely regulates the use of human growth hormone, allowing it to be prescribed for certain medical conditions but not for anti-aging, bodybuilding or weight loss.
Jintropin is widely used to build muscle mass and, in 2007, actor Sylvester Stallone was convicted of importing dozens of vials of the drug into Australia. He later defended its use.
GeneScience of China ( maker of Jintropin HGH ) being sued by parents of the girl ( bodybuilder and steroid dealer ) David Jacobs killed.
Parents say a man shot their daughter to death in his home, then killed himself, in a fit of "'roid rage" brought on by taking illegal anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. The parents of Amana Jo Earhart-Savell sued Lei Jin and GeneScience Pharmaceutical, both of Shanghai.
Lei Jin is a Chinese citizen and a legal permanent resident of the United States who sometimes lives in Madison, Wisconsin, Gary and Kathy Earhart say in their federal complaint.
The Earharts say that David Jacobs intentionally killed their daughter in his Plano home on June 5, 2008, then killed himself, as a result of the steroids and human growth hormones he was taking.
"David Jacobs had previously been indicted and plead[ed] guilty to conspiring to sell anabolic steroids," according to the complaint. "Defendants knew the dangerous nature of the products they were selling unlawfully and knew that its products could and would cause harm to others, including but not limited to causing explosive rage in individuals using their products. Defendants were motivated entirely by greed and acted in conscious indifference to the rights, health and safety of others."
The complaint adds: "GeneScience was engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing, exporting, and distributing human Growth Hormone (hGH) under the brand name GenLei Jintropin (hereinafter Jintropin) as well as anabolic steroids. GeneScience utilized the internet and various intermediaries to export Jintropin and steroids into the United States and other countries throughout the world." (Parentheses as in complaint.)
The parents seek damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium and other charges, and want the defendants enjoined from selling their stuff. They are represented by David Schiller of Plano.
Lei Jin is a Chinese citizen and a legal permanent resident of the United States who sometimes lives in Madison, Wisconsin, Gary and Kathy Earhart say in their federal complaint.
The Earharts say that David Jacobs intentionally killed their daughter in his Plano home on June 5, 2008, then killed himself, as a result of the steroids and human growth hormones he was taking.
"David Jacobs had previously been indicted and plead[ed] guilty to conspiring to sell anabolic steroids," according to the complaint. "Defendants knew the dangerous nature of the products they were selling unlawfully and knew that its products could and would cause harm to others, including but not limited to causing explosive rage in individuals using their products. Defendants were motivated entirely by greed and acted in conscious indifference to the rights, health and safety of others."
The complaint adds: "GeneScience was engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing, exporting, and distributing human Growth Hormone (hGH) under the brand name GenLei Jintropin (hereinafter Jintropin) as well as anabolic steroids. GeneScience utilized the internet and various intermediaries to export Jintropin and steroids into the United States and other countries throughout the world." (Parentheses as in complaint.)
The parents seek damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium and other charges, and want the defendants enjoined from selling their stuff. They are represented by David Schiller of Plano.
Pharmacy in earlier investigation alleged to be part of international smuggling network.
An Orlando pharmacy whose operators were snared nearly three years ago in an Albany County criminal probe has been implicated in an international network that federal authorities say smuggled human growth hormone from China to the United States, court records show.
The role of Florida's Signature Compounding Pharmacy in the distribution of human growth hormone is highlighted in a partially sealed federal criminal case in Rhode Island that was never announced by the Justice Department.
Signature's alleged role in the wider federal case comes as an appellate court in Albany is set to rule soon on whether state criminal charges against the pharmacy's operators should be reinstated here.
The role of Florida's Signature Compounding Pharmacy in the distribution of human growth hormone is highlighted in a partially sealed federal criminal case in Rhode Island that was never announced by the Justice Department.
Signature's alleged role in the wider federal case comes as an appellate court in Albany is set to rule soon on whether state criminal charges against the pharmacy's operators should be reinstated here.
Signature pharmacy is identified in Effron's court papers by name and also as "pharmacy X." Two Florida physicians, Gary Brandwein and Claire Godfrey, who pleaded guilty to felony criminal charges in Albany related to prescriptions they wrote through Signature pharmacy, also are identified in Effron's criminal case.
The criminal charges against Effron detail his importing HGH from a Hong Kong company, GeneScience Pharmaceutical Co., whose founder, Lei Jin, was indicted on similar federal drug smuggling charges in Rhode Island two years ago. Jin pleaded not guilty and his case is pending.
"Pharmacy X was a licensed pharmacy located in Orlando, Florida," states an 18-page criminal information filed against Effron in June. "Pharmacy X contracted Effron to facilitate the smuggling of HGH from GPC in China to Florida."
Between 2004 and 2007 Effron, "acting on behalf of Pharmacy X," illegally imported more than $690,000 worth of HGH from China, court records show.
Effron and Lei Jin, who often used e-mails to discuss their importation of HGH, met at least three times in Orlando and China regarding their alleged conspiracy. "The owners of Pharmacy X were present during at least one of those meetings," prosecutors said in court filings.Pharmacy X and Effron took steps to conceal the origin of the HGH that was being imported (from China) because they knew that HGH manufactured by GPC was not an approved drug, that it was on the FDA seizure list, and that, in any event, Effron was not a licensed wholesale drug distributor," prosecutors wrote in Effron's criminal information.
GeneSci-China.co m we're pretty sure it's a SCAM !
A B.O.S member using the user name TurkMuscle posted the following warning yesterday "
"Warning to all people. There are a scammers from the website GENESCI-CHINA.c o m which are send now emails that seem to come from official Jintropin but is just a internet scam they send you a pricelist with very low prices and sign the emails as former well known real GEN LEI workers. In end ask for Western Union and scam the money. Be careful with this."
So we decided to do a little investigation of our own.
The Chinese language "gensci.com.c n" site links to "www.gensci-china.c o m" not the impersonator "genEsci-china.c o m"
The original GeneScience domain name "gensci-china.com" was created in 1998 and hosted in China by Nihao.net ( a legit Chinese hosting company ).
a month later the Chinese language .cn version was created.
The domain is registered to this address :-
Tianhe Street,Changchun High-Tech
Developing Zone,Changchun
Changchun, JL 130012
China
All the legit "gensci-china.c o m" info can be verified on the company's EChinaBio page.
Plus if we check the original "www.gensci-china.c o m" on Archive.org we can see the site has been up for a long time.
The impersonator's domain name "genEsci-china.com" was created in 2008 and hosted by Thankyouhost.c o m ( a host with no valid contact info run by a 'James Bond' in Texas ) . The domain name itself was purchased via SnapNames.com ( a company that specialises in auctioning expired domain names primarily so you can inherit traffic intended for the original site's owner )
The domain is registered to this address :-
72 Tianhe st., Changchun
\r
t Changchun
Jinlin,
CN
( 72 Tianhe Street is correct but note how many typos / errors there are )
None of the links on the impersonator's site are currently working so if they are scamming it must be through the use of email as TurkMuscle suggested.
There are no google search results for jintropin06@yahoo.c o m.
We did find that prior to Operation Raw Deal someone using the name "jack edwards" jintropin05@yahoo.com made frequent posts on the LEF forums.
If we check the impersonator "www.genesci-china.com" on Archive. org we can see the site has suspiciously chosen not to be archived.
Sorry, no matches.
It seems most likely to us that http://www.genEsci-china.c o m/ is a classic middle man scam.
That's where someone creates a fake site but uses the payment info / prices of a real source.
They begin by taking orders and having the payments collected and orders filled by the real source. Once they have established a good rep and the public thinks the impersonator's site is legit they change their payment info and continue to collect funds, of course at this stage product is no longer sent to customers.
This type of scam is amongst the worst because quite often the legit source who is being impersonated ends up getting blamed.
There's about a 0.0001 % chance TurkMuscle and myself are wrong about
Update : We've just discovered the impersonator has even managed to get his scam site genEsci-china.c om listed on Jintropin's Wikipedia entry :-(
The scam may be cleverer than we originally thought according to TurkMuscle's lates B.O.S post
"That's not the problem fact is now the scammers from genesci-china.com have gathered access to real GenSci email and sent priceoffers to all their contact of the real GenSci and sign emails as real GenSci employees and scam people. Be aware."
Sounds like they may have managed to trick a a real GenSci employee into installing a trojan horse or have simply brute forced the real GenSci's passwords.
"Warning to all people. There are a scammers from the website GENESCI-CHINA.c o m which are send now emails that seem to come from official Jintropin but is just a internet scam they send you a pricelist with very low prices and sign the emails as former well known real GEN LEI workers. In end ask for Western Union and scam the money. Be careful with this."
So we decided to do a little investigation of our own.
The Chinese language "gensci.com.c n" site links to "www.gensci-china.c o m" not the impersonator "genEsci-china.c o m"
The original GeneScience domain name "gensci-china.com" was created in 1998 and hosted in China by Nihao.net ( a legit Chinese hosting company ).
a month later the Chinese language .cn version was created.
The domain is registered to this address :-
Tianhe Street,Changchun High-Tech
Developing Zone,Changchun
Changchun, JL 130012
China
All the legit "gensci-china.c o m" info can be verified on the company's EChinaBio page.
Plus if we check the original "www.gensci-china.c o m" on Archive.org we can see the site has been up for a long time.
The impersonator's domain name "genEsci-china.com" was created in 2008 and hosted by Thankyouhost.c o m ( a host with no valid contact info run by a 'James Bond' in Texas ) . The domain name itself was purchased via SnapNames.com ( a company that specialises in auctioning expired domain names primarily so you can inherit traffic intended for the original site's owner )
The domain is registered to this address :-
72 Tianhe st., Changchun
\r
t Changchun
Jinlin,
CN
( 72 Tianhe Street is correct but note how many typos / errors there are )
None of the links on the impersonator's site are currently working so if they are scamming it must be through the use of email as TurkMuscle suggested.
There are no google search results for jintropin06@yahoo.c o m.
We did find that prior to Operation Raw Deal someone using the name "jack edwards" jintropin05@yahoo.com
Sorry, no matches.
It seems most likely to us that http://www.genEsci-china.c o m/ is a classic middle man scam.
That's where someone creates a fake site but uses the payment info / prices of a real source.
They begin by taking orders and having the payments collected and orders filled by the real source. Once they have established a good rep and the public thinks the impersonator's site is legit they change their payment info and continue to collect funds, of course at this stage product is no longer sent to customers.
This type of scam is amongst the worst because quite often the legit source who is being impersonated ends up getting blamed.
There's about a 0.0001 % chance TurkMuscle and myself are wrong about
Update : We've just discovered the impersonator has even managed to get his scam site genEsci-china.c om listed on Jintropin's Wikipedia entry :-(
The scam may be cleverer than we originally thought according to TurkMuscle's lates B.O.S post
"That's not the problem fact is now the scammers from genesci-china.com have gathered access to real GenSci email and sent priceoffers to all their contact of the real GenSci and sign emails as real GenSci employees and scam people. Be aware."
Sounds like they may have managed to trick a a real GenSci employee into installing a trojan horse or have simply brute forced the real GenSci's passwords.
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