and diet drug makers -- perhaps the hardest hit by the withdrawal -- have reformulated at least some of their products with ephedrine alkaloids. FDA's sudden recommendation in November to stop ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition held a second day of public hearings Wednesday on ephedrine alkaloids, a substance found in ...

Nonetheless, in 2004, the US FDA prohibited dietary supplements that included ephedrine alkaloids due to their significant safety hazards. The supplements were associated with cases of heart ...

From the product labels, it appears that the terms "ephedrine" and "ephedrine [or ephedra] alkaloids" are considered by some manufacturers to be synonymous. Individual ephedra alkaloids differ not ...