FDA ends probe into kratom salmonella link
The Food and Drug Administration has ended its investigation of a small salmonella outbreak linked to kratom …no single source of the outbreak was ever identified, but kratom was considered the “likely source.” There have been several other salmonella outbreaks this year, including infections linked to melons, raw sprouts, dried and shredded coconut, live poultry, chicken salad, pet guinea pigs, and Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal.
The FDA ended its investigation five weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrapped up it’s own probe of the salmonella outbreak … The FDA has even started calling [the whole plant] kratom an addictive “opioid,” when in reality its active ingredients are mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, two alkaloids that are believed to act on opioid receptors in the brain. Earlier this year, the FDA released a computer analysis that found kratom contains over two dozen opioid-like substances – a report that critics say was biased and amounted to “junk science.”
Original Article (Pain News Network):
FDA Ends Probe into Kratom Salmonella Link
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