Moreover, the agency claims that the maker, Industrial Chemicals, LLC/INI Botanicals, is using disease treatment claims on their website as well as "misleading statements" that their proposed product was in regulatory compliance with the FDA. Related - FDA Weaponizes 'Opioid Label Against Kratom ConsumersHowever, I can't criticize FDA for acting against the makers of this particular product. Anthony Roberts, an independent journalist on the dietary supplement beat, has chronicled this organization's troubled attempts to garner new dietary ingredient classification for their product. "Kratom isn’t a 99%+ pure extract in nature, so to prove that it’s safe, one would need data on that specific extract," wrote Roberts. Lastly, federal laws simply prohibit making drug-like claims for a dietary supplement.

Source: Forbes February 27, 2018 16:55 UTC