FEDERAL WARNING HALTS HERBAL DRINK PRODUCTION.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The maker of an herbal drink that sickened more than 50 revelers at a New Year's Eve rave party in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. has stopped producing the concoction after a warning from federal officials. Biolife Bioproducts Ltd. of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. was served with the warning in a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, company founder Dan Xavieris said Tuesday. He refused to describe the nature of the warning. Biolife also has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation The collection of assets belonging to a debtor to be applied to the discharge of his or her outstanding debts. A type of proceeding pursuant to federal Bankruptcy bankruptcy just six weeks after the company started, he said. The vials labeled ``fx'' were filled at a plant in Escondido, 30 miles north of San Diego. Xavieris said he passed out free samples of his drinks - named ``Cherry fX Bomb,'' ``Orange fX Rush'' and ``Lemon fX Drop'' - to about 450 teen-agers during the Dec. 31 party. Many drank more than five times the recommended dosage and others took drugs despite a warning label on the vial vial a small bottle. , he said. |
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