Santa Cruz, other DAs sue manufacturers of products for weight loss

District Attorney Bob Lee today joined colleagues from several other counties in a lawsuit against three companies making the allegedly false statements that their dietary supplements containing extract from the African Hoodia plant, announced the Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office. Hoodia Gordonii Became well after they featured in 2004 on the CBS national TV show 60 minutes, that the use of San tribesman in the Kalahari Desert showed known. The men there are appetite suppression on long journeys, according to Santa Cruz County prosecutor Kelly Walker. Also due to the publicity, several companies began marketing the extract in different forms, such as a weight loss aid. But the process in Solano County, states that produce Delmar Labs, Breakthrough Engineered Nutrition and Geopharma products with packaging and advertising, claiming to contain Hoodia Gordonii, they contain little or nothing to be filed it, "said Walker. The companies have been sued for false advertising and unlawful business practices in the manufacture and sale of food supplements, he added. The supplements are Hoodia Gordonii, L-10 and Dex Dex Gordonii Hoodia L-10 Complete, known Walker stated. The action was filed by prosecutors in Alameda, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta and Sonoma, he said. It will end the false advertising, restitution for defrauded consumers