The Food and Drug Administration has added three products to a safety alert about yellow oleander. There are now 33 products on the warning list.
The agency is reminding consumers to avoid these products because they have been tested and found to contain toxic yellow oleander and can cause neurologic, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular adverse health effects that may be severe, or even fatal. FDA continues to investigate the safety of botanical weight loss products on the market by testing for yellow oleander.
Additionally, two of these products contain other hidden drug ingredients and may cause life-threatening reactions. See FDA’s notifications for D Magic Plus and B. Magi for more information.
The FDA is advising consumers to stop using and dispose of the 33 products on the list, which can be found by clicking here.
The FDA advises consumers who have taken any of these products to contact their health care provider immediately, even if the products have not been used recently, so that an appropriate evaluation may be conducted.
Call 9-1-1 or get emergency medical help right away if you or someone in your care has serious side effects from these products.
In September 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report of several tejocote root products found to be substituted with yellow oleander, a toxic substance. Based on this report, the FDA initiated an investigation to sample and test additional tejocote root products. As part of FDA’s ongoing surveillance sampling efforts, we continue to test products; those found to contain yellow oleander are listed above.
Based on the FDA’s sampling and testing results thus far, the FDA is also concerned that other products marketed as tejocote root (including with other names such as Crataegus mexicana, Raiz de Tejocote, and Mexican Hawthorn) may contain yellow oleander.
Additional investigation by FDA has determined that some dietary supplements that are not labeled to contain tejocote root may also contain toxic, yellow oleander. Consuming yellow oleander can cause severe adverse health effects and be potentially fatal.
