ATLANTA — An area lawyer is asking on the Meals and Drug Administration to recall a well-liked wellness product product of mud.
Channel 2 Motion Information first introduced you the story a number of weeks in the past of people that felt duped by Black Oxygen Organics, which has since gone out of enterprise.
Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was outdoors the federal courthouse the place a lawsuit was filed Thursday.
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Prospects and former gross sales reps are claiming they’re owed tens of hundreds of {dollars} in commissions and refunds.
Lauren Sulkis, a 37-year-old mom from Kennesaw, mentioned she tried Black Oxygen Organics, or BOO, earlier this 12 months. She drank it. She ate it. She even bathed in it.
“I used to be advised by a variety of mates and folks I knew within the well being world that I trusted their opinion that this was a very good product,” Sulkis mentioned.
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Sulkis mentioned the product, which is marketed as Fulvic acid, a compound derived from decayed vegetation that was dug up from a Canadian bathroom, made her really feel good and gave her additional power. Different customers claimed that it cured ache, improved mind operate and removed toxins.
Sulkis ultimately joined the multilevel advertising and marketing firm and commenced promoting the mud to her mates. However when the corporate did not pay her a fee, she stopped promoting it.
Then, final month, she came upon in regards to the federal lawsuit accusing BOO of promoting merchandise with elevated ranges of lead and arsenic.
“I’m simply not okay with corruption in any type, particularly within the pure well being world,” Sulkis mentioned.
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Matt Wetherington, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit, mentioned after BOO shut down, American distributors went on-line and claimed fluvic acid does have poisonous heavy metals, however they’re not harmful.
“The American distributors log on they usually say, ‘Really, it does have poisonous heavy metals, however they’re good for you. They’re natural poisonous heavy metals they usually’re tremendous protected and it’s best to take it, particularly when you’ve got COVID!’” Wetherington mentioned.
On Thursday, Wetherington confirmed Seiden how some gross sales reps are nonetheless pushing the merchandise on the secondary market. He’s now calling on the FDA to concern a recall after listening to from clients who declare the product is making them sick.
“That is about profiting off of individuals’s need to get more healthy,” Wetherington mentioned.
Channel 2 has emailed, known as, texted and despatched messages on social media, however the firm has ignored repeated makes an attempt to get its facet of the story. The FDA has additionally declined to remark.
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