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# Some weight loss supplements OxyELITE Pro linked to acute hepatitis
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/oxyelite_pro_0916141109/
- Published: 2014-09-16T12:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:25:06.000Z
- Description: A letter to the editor in The American Journal of Gastroenterology reports the outbreak. The FDA had already alerted the public to the acute hepatitis cases and later issued a consumer update about the recall of the product.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Obesity, Avoiding Illness, #vivvo-import

A [Letter to Editor](http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v109/n8/full/ajg2014159a.html?ref=foodconsumer.org) recently published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology reveals an outbreak of severe hepatitis linked to weight loss supplement called OxyELITE Pro. (The link does not show much of the report, pruchase is needed to view the article).On Nov 18, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration issued a [consumer update ](http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm374742.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org)to alert the public to the recall of OxyELITE Pro. The agency earlier issued a [statement ](http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Outbreaks/ucm370849.htm?ref=foodconsumer.org)to alert the public to the outbreak of acute hepatitis illnesses linked to certain OxyElite Pro products. *Marina M Roytman, Peter Pörzgen, Christine L Lee, Leslie Huddleston, Timothy T Kuo, Peter Bryant-Greenwood, Linda L Wong and Naoky Tsai, Outbreak of Severe Hepatitis Linked to Weight-Loss Supplement OxyELITE Pro, The American Journal of Gastroenterology 109, 1296-1298 (August 2014)*