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Nikki Haskell, the owner and chief executive officer of Balanced Health Products (BHP), has been sentenced by a United States magistrate judge in Manhattan federal court to a $60,000 fine for distributing dietary supplements that contained a prescription drug.
From at least November 2006 through December 2008, BHP’s primary business was the distribution across the United States of this product, called “Nikki Haskell’s StarCaps” (StarCaps).
BHP advertised StarCaps as weight-loss pills containing only all-natural ingredients including, for example, papaya extract. The company failed to list on the product’s label that the pills also contained bumetanide, a powerful diuretic used clinically to treat heart failure, kidney failure, high blood pressure and swelling (edema). Bumetanide is available in the United States only by prescription from a licensed physician.
In March 2014, Haskell was convicted upon a guilty plea to distributing the misbranded StarCaps from BHP’s New York City-based location. Per Haskell, the company is now defunct and has filed for bankruptcy.
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