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12/20/2016
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Registration of imported product was irregular as food
On Monday (19), the National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance (Anvisa) banned the sale of capsule of Mixed Tea Soluble manufactured by the American company Arnold Nutrition. Imported Thermo Ripped Lean Tea was marketed without proper registration and in capsules, an unconventional form in the food area.
Anvisa also determined that the Brazilian company Nutribands, which distributes the product in Brazil, promotes the collection of all the stock in the tea market in question.
Foods marketed in an atypical form found on the market, or in a form not registered by Anvisa, require tests of use and specific health records. In the case of Lean Tea capsules, which dissolve in contact with hot water, it would be necessary that such tests prove their safety and that the food was registered by Anvisa, before being even distributed in Brazil.
The Agency also took into account two other items of the product concerned. The first point raised was regarding the concentration of tea. The ingredients that were part of the tea were present in quantity far above that observed in a regular diet, a total of 500mg of the green tea extract and another 500mg of the white tea extract.
The other question analyzed by sanitary surveillance was the method of extracting one of the ingredients used in Lean Tea. The aqueous extract of green tea had a method of alcoholic extraction, which should be inspected by a technical committee, since the method was used in a new food product.
Source: Portal Brasil, with information from Anvisa
Source: Anvisa
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