CDC alert on adverse effects associated with consuming "Total Body Formula" and "Total Body Mega Formula"

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; United States. Food and Drug Administration. ; American Association of Poison Control Centers.
• Description:
  Monday, April 14, 2008, 18:50 EDT (6:50 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00274-2008-04-14-ADV-N
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working collaboratively with state health departments, the American Association of Poison Control Centers, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on reports of adverse health effects following consumption of the dietary supplement “ Total Body Formula, - and “ Total Body Mega Formula - manufactured in the USA exclusively for Total Body Essential Nutrition, Inc. This dietary supplement has been found by FDA to contain hazardous levels of selenium (up to 200 times the label value) and chromium (up to 17 times the label value).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Chromium Dietary Supplements Selenium
• Source:
  HAN ; 274
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Advisory
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  274
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d31478bf96232b1d720b0a260baeb0d6ed9f4a714152bcecfa4b2f1e6c0acde80ec01e3f813f801cd22d9d240e0f52acb5de44727882897807f8f3e0de3f370a
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25185/cdc_25185_DS1.pdf
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