On thursday may 7th, according to the FDA website: "At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals today seized more than $1.5 million worth of food products, including herbs and botanicals, stored under filthy conditions at the American Mercantile Corporation of Memphis, Tenn." this seizure was ordered by the US District Courts in Memphis.
"'The food and supplements industry can expect a lot more of this', says Loren Israelsen, executive director of the supplements trade group United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA)" " A Follow-up joint inspection with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture found that the owner failed to clean the facility and did not correct previous violations, despite promising to do so. No warning letter was issued," FDA said in an e-mail statement to Functional Ingredients magazine."