LifeVantage Corporation (NASDAQ: LFVN) announced today that it is contacting affected independent distributors and other customers to voluntarily recall and replace bottles of its Protandim®, the Nrf2 Synergizer®, dietary supplement from the lots shown below. The Company is taking this action due to the possible inclusion of small metal fragments in the final product. The fragments were originally discovered in batches of turmeric extract, an ingredient in Protandim® that was purchased from a third party supplier.
Protandim is packaged in a cylindrical blue bottle and contains thirty caplets per bottle. The potentially affected Protandim® lot numbers are shown below. The lots shown below were distributed in the United States and Japan between July and November 2012. Lot numbers are located on the left side of the product label when looking at the front of the label, directly above the RFID scan bar.
Lot# | Expiration Date |
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12-0258 | 7/2/2015 |
12-0259 | 7/3/2015 |
12-0292 | 7/9/2015 |
12-0294 | 7/11/2015 |
12-0295 | 7/12/2015 |
12-0304 | 7/18/2015 |
12-0306 | 8/16/2015 |
12-0307 | 8/17/2015 |
12-0373 | 8/21/2015 |
12-0382 | 9/21/2015 |
When the Company was alerted to this issue, it immediately isolated affected product and began working with its third party manufacturers, suppliers and industry experts to mitigate any health risk potential. After consulting with medical experts, the Company believes that these materials pose no serious risk to consumers’ health. Furthermore, the Company has not received any report of a health problem related to this issue.