Black Cohosh warning
December 4, 2012
THE UK Medicines and Healthcare
Products Regulatory Agency has
issued a warning regarding Viridian
Nutrition’s Black Cohosh Root
capsules, advising people to return
them to the store where they
purchased them.
The reasoning behind the warning
is that the product was found to
contain an unintended and
undeclared plant material.
“Testing found that the product,
which should only contain Black
Cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa), also
contained another species, most
probably Cimicifuga foetida,” the
MHRA said in a statement.
“The undeclared plant material,
Cimicifuga foetida, is not generally
used in Western herbal medicine
and its properties or safety has not
been evaluated,” the statement
added.
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