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The source, safety and regulatory status of DMAA (methylhexaneamine/1,3-dimethylamylamine), a stimulant used in pre-workout supplements, is a topic of intense debate in the food supplement industry and the analytical testing community. Is it sourced from geranium? Will it taint the London Olympic Games? Is a global ban in the wings? We've covered it more closely than most...
One more time: US Army/ NSF analysis shows DMAA not in geranium
A new analysis from US Army scientists and NSF International finds, yet again, that controversial compound DMAA (1,3 dimethylamylamine) is not found in geranium. The analysis supports FDA conclusions that the...
UPDATE: Swedish agency detects (legal) amphetamine-like compounds in sports supplements; not in ‘authentic’ Craze, says manufacturer
A Swedish lab has found amphetamine-like compounds in sports supplements containing a herbal extract that has been touted as a replacement for widely banned stimulant, DMAA. But the lab said...
European sports nutrition sector ‘angry’ at quality criticism after DMAA marathon death
The European sports supplements sector is not under-regulated the industry has said in an angry reaction to calls for greater controls after the death of a woman running the London...
DMAA in the dock
DMAA blamed for London marathon death
A single dose of the banned stimulant DMAA was the most probable cause of the heart attack that killed Claire Squires in hospital after she collapsed during the final metres...
USPLabs sets aside $2m to settle DMAA class action cases
After a tidal wave of lawsuits and months of heated debate about the regulatory status of the stimulant DMAA (1,3-Dimethylamylamine), USPLabs has agreed to settle a nationwide class action suit...
DMAA: Only found in select geranium, says new USPLabs-funded study
Controversial ingredient DMAA has been detected in geranium from select regions of China, but not all, according to a new study from the University of Memphis and funded by USPLabs.
DMAA not in geranium, says yet another study
Guess what? DMAA is not found in extracts from four different species of geranium and three cultivars, and the ingredient in a leading dietary supplement is probably synthetic, says a...
Spain and the Netherlands warn against DMAA
Spanish and Dutch authorities have added to the growing list of countries issuing warnings against the pre-workout and weight loss stimulant, DMAA (dimethylamylimine/ methylhexanamine).
UK wins Jack3D appeal and bans DMAA
The UK has ended months of ambiguity by banning controversial stimulant DMAA, after its medicines agency won an appeal against a retailer of the most popular brand – USPlabs’ Jack3D.
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Malta issues DMAA warning
The Maltese Health Inspectorate Services has warned against pre-workout stimulant DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine/methylhexaneamine).
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Germany: DMAA safety data “full of gaps”
The German food safety agency has warned people with increased blood pressure and those suffering from cardiovascular disease off disputed stimulant DMAA, and called for a probe into its legal...
Updated: NSF and USADA voice concerns over USPlabs’ DMAA analysis
Analytical experts from NSF International and USADA have voiced concerns over the new DMAA analysis that claims to confirm the presence of DMAA in geranium, NutraIngredients-USA can report.
London Olympics 2012: DMAA responsible for 1 of 8 doping violations
Controversial stimulant DMAA – the substance that has caused more doping violations in recent years than any other including blood boosters and steroids – was responsible for just one violation...
UK food agency warns against DMAA (but medicines agency has final say)
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned consumers off pre-workout supplements containing the stimulant DMAA, in reaction to adverse events reported from around the world. But it says the...
Slate magazine tells athletes: “Stop taking supplements”
Athletes should avoid taking food supplements because they are overpriced, don’t boost performance and could provoke doping violations, an article in online daily news site, Slate, has said.
DMAA in the Dock
France hunting ‘unauthorised’ DMAA products as Australia condemns stimulant
The French agency responsible for policing the country’s food supplements market told NutraIngredients today the controversial stimulant DMAA has been prioritised by its 2500 agents in a nationwide crackdown.
GNC backpedals on DMAA and prepares for launch of 'banned-substance-free' MARKED range
Supplement giant GNC - which put its head above the parapet in April to defend DMAA while the rest of the trade kept silent - says it has since “made a...
UK busts 84 sports supplements for “dangerous ingredients”
The bad week for the sports nutrition sector continued this morning as the UK medicines regulator announced it had warned retailers and manufacturers to remove 84 products containing “dangerous ingredients”.
BMJ slams sports nutrition & EFSA; Glaxo defends 40 years of science
On the eve of the Olympics, Oxford University academics writing in the British Medical Journal – in conjunction with the BBC Panorama documentary team – have damned sports nutrition products like GlaxoSmithKline’s...
Coming to a store near you: Jack3d Micro (minus the DMAA)
While USPLabs has strongly defended the safety, efficacy and legal status of DMAA - the star ingredient in top-selling pre-workout supplement Jack3d - it has been working on a new...
DMAA in the dock
Australian medicines agency adds DMAA to poisons list
Australia’s medicines regulator – the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - has added DMAA to its Schedule 9 list of prohibited substances and poisons that includes cannabis, salvia divinorum, GHB, heroin, psilocybin...
USPLabs promises new data that ‘definitively’ proves presence of DMAA in geranium
USPLabs has challenged the findings of new research on the source of DMAA and alerted the trade to the imminent publication of data it claims “definitively demonstrates” that the much-maligned...
Pressure mounts on USPLabs as another peer-reviewed paper concludes DMAA is NOT in geranium
If last month’s paper in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology was seen by some observers as the ‘final nail in DMAA’s coffin’, a new paper published in Drug Testing and...
DMAA in the dock
Ireland: DMAA products are “illegal medicines”
Ireland has joined the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US in warning against the pre-workout stimulant DMAA (methylhexaneamine/1,3-dimethylamylamine).
Is new geranium analysis the ‘final nail in the DMAA coffin’?
Controversial ingredient DMAA is not detectable in plant material and oil from geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), says a new analysis that has been hailed as the ‘final coffin nail in the...
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