After the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) ordered the pullout of glutathione supplements out of the market, Sen. Loren Legarda is pulling out as an endorser of affected products.
Legarda said Wednesday that as a consumer welfare advocate, she is against any form of public deception. Based on the BFAD findings the product she endorses – Lucida-DS/Glutathione 500 mg – do not have the amount of glutathione, along with Glutalife dietary supplement and Vaniderm/Dietary Supplement. Legarda “formally demanded” the company to “dismantle within 24 hours all the billboards showing her as product endorser of Lucida-DS.
Legarda is asking United Shelter Health Products, the Philippine distributor of both Lucida-DS and Vaniderm, to “explain to the public the adverse findings of the BFAD against Lucida-DS.”
United Shelter Products said that its contract with the senator will end this week.
