Nutrition Business Journal

What To Do About DMAA?

A beast with many faces takes center stage in preworkouts as tensions rise between industry & FDA
Feb. 16, 2012 12:33pm

It goes by many names. Methylhexaneamine. 1,3-Dimethylamylamine. 1,3-Dimethylpentylamine. 4-methylhexan 2-amine. Forthane. Floradrene. Geranimine. Sunrise. Hummer. Geranium extract, plant, oil, parts, stem and leaf. For the better part of a year, Nutrition Business Journal has followed the developments in the steadily intensifying story around this compound. It’s a story that’s become especially important in light of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s hardnosed stance on synthetic botanicals in its New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) draft guidance. It’s a complicated story that deserves the broad, encompassing overview to follow. Let’s be...

 

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