The Food and Drug Administration ordered 14 companies to stop making fraudulent claims about cancer cures and warned consumers that such products are untested and possibly dangerous. The letters covered more than five dozen unapproved products that the companies said could prevent, treat or cure cancer, the FDA said. Its website said that “cancer and AIDS sufferers or other ill people may wish to take 2 fluid ounces of the tea twice daily on an empty stomach,” the FDA warning letter said. Elsewhere on the company's website, the FDA noted, the firm is promoting “thermography,” which uses digital infrared thermal imaging, as an unapproved device to detect breast cancer. But it acknowledged that while the warnings sometimes stopped the sales, the companies sometimes just moved the products to new websites.

Source: Washington Post April 25, 2017 20:58 UTC