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Newsweek
18 hours ago
- Health
- Newsweek
Vitamin Gummies Recalled Over Undeclared Peanut Allergen Risk
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Vita Warehouse Corp. has voluntarily recalled three popular vitamin B12 gummy products due to potential undeclared peanut contamination, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week. Newsweek reached out to Vita Warehouse Corp. via email on Saturday for comment. Why It Matters Individuals who are allergic to peanuts have immune systems that react to peanuts, with symptoms that might include skin reactions, itching or tingling in the mouth or throat, digestive problems such as diarrhea, runny nose, tightening of the throat and shortness of breath. In severe cases, people with food allergies may go into anaphylaxis—and peanuts are the most common cause of anaphylactic allergic reactions. Anaphylaxis may involve difficulty breathing, swelling of the lips, tongue and throat, a drop in blood pressure, a rapid pulse, dizziness, lightheadedness or a loss of consciousness. June 12, 2025, Vita Warehouse Corp. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Welby® brand Vitamin B12 Energy Support gummy product 1000 mcg 140 gummies, Berkely Jensen® Vitamin B12 1000 mcg 250 Gummies, and VitaGlobe™ Vitamin... June 12, 2025, Vita Warehouse Corp. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Welby® brand Vitamin B12 Energy Support gummy product 1000 mcg 140 gummies, Berkely Jensen® Vitamin B12 1000 mcg 250 Gummies, and VitaGlobe™ Vitamin B12 Extra Strength 60 Gummies due to the potential presence of undeclared peanuts. More U.S. Food & Drug Administration/FDA What To Know The affected products include three distinct vitamin B12 formulations: Welby's 1000 mcg 140-count gummies in green, red, and white packaging (UPC: 4099100290868); Berkley Jensen's 1000 mcg 250-count gummies in red and pink labeling (UPC: 888670132487) VitaGlobe's Extra Strength 60-count gummies with white and red packaging (UPC: 850005214670) All products feature clear bottles with white caps, with lot codes and expiration dates printed on bottle bottoms. No illnesses or allergic reactions have been reported to date. Consumers should check these details before use, as only products with lot number 248046601 and October 2026 expiration dates are affected. The recall spans multiple distribution channels, including physical ALDI and BJ's locations nationwide, plus online sales through company websites and Amazon. Vita Warehouse Corp. emphasized that no other products under these brand names are affected by the recall. What People Are Saying Vita Warehouse Corp. Statement: "This voluntary recall was initiated out of an abundance of caution to ensure consumer safety and trust. We are committed to maintaining the highest product safety and quality standards." In an email to Newsweek in January, the FDA said: "Most recalls in the U.S. are carried out voluntarily by the product manufacturer and when a company issues a public warning, typically via news release, to inform the public of a voluntary product recall, the FDA shares that release on our website as a public service. "The FDA's role during a voluntary, firm-initiated, recall is to review the recall strategy, evaluate the health hazard presented by the product, monitor the recall, and as appropriate alert the public and other companies in the supply chain about the recall," the FDA continued. It added: "The FDA provides public access to information on recalls by posting a listing of recalls according to their classification in the FDA Enforcement Report, including the specific action taken by the recalling company. The FDA Enforcement Report is designed to provide a public listing of products in the marketplace that are being recalled." June 12, 2025, Vita Warehouse Corp. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Welby® brand Vitamin B12 Energy Support gummy product 1000 mcg 140 gummies, Berkely Jensen® Vitamin B12 1000 mcg 250 Gummies, and VitaGlobe™... June 12, 2025, Vita Warehouse Corp. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Welby® brand Vitamin B12 Energy Support gummy product 1000 mcg 140 gummies, Berkely Jensen® Vitamin B12 1000 mcg 250 Gummies, and VitaGlobe™ Vitamin B12 Extra Strength 60 Gummies due to the potential presence of undeclared peanuts. More U.S. Food & Drug Administration/FDA What Happens Next Consumers who purchased affected products should immediately stop using them and return items to their place of purchase for full refunds or dispose of them safely. Those experiencing allergic reactions should seek immediate medical attention. Vita Warehouse Corp. has established a consumer hotline at 1-855-214-0100, operating Monday through Friday from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM EST, to address customer questions and concerns.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Foreign anti-Semitic campus radicals no longer have anywhere left to hide
From Berkely in the 1960s to Bates and Brown today, the US has long shown great tolerance for home-grown campus activists. But when it comes to foreign students here on visas, president Trump has clearly signalled he is unwilling to put up with much more nonsense. Since the Oct 7 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, students and radical activists, united by hatred of Israel or fervor for the Palestinian cause (which are often hard to separate), have vandalised, rioted, assaulted, and disrupted college campuses and big cities across America. The long list of outrages is bad enough, but the reaction of university administrators has been scandalous. Far from seeing the clear danger to their own interests of allowing entitled student protesters free rein, the adults seemed eager to protect them from true discipline. Summoned to testify before an angry Congress last May, the presidents of Northwestern, Rutgers, and UCLA admitted that very few students had been disciplined for anti-Semitic acts. Two of the three later resigned. One of their replacements, UCLA's Julio Frenk, seems to be taking things more seriously. He recently suspended the UCLA chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a group behind many protests nationwide. One reason college leaders were reluctant to act against student malfeasance is that faculties and administrators in American higher education are overwhelmingly Left of centre, and many sympathise with or even support protests against Israel. Another reason was self-interest: with a declining college-age population in the US, students are a commodity that universities are loath to lose – and foreign ones usually pay full freight. Over half the students at Columbia University in New York City, home to some of the worst campus violence and vandalism, are foreign. The president of MIT, approximately 40 per cent of whose graduate students are foreign, admitted that 'collateral consequences for the students, such as visa issues' had caused them to go easier on foreign students involved in campus demonstrations. But venality doesn't excuse a pathetic unwillingness to tackle anti-Semitism that manifests in vandalism, aggression, and other acts that are at worst illegal and at best against college rules. Perhaps nowhere was student behaviour, and faculty leadership, worse than at Columbia. Student Khymani James was at the forefront of anti-Israel activism there and recorded himself saying 'Zionists don't deserve to live'. Columbia had its own 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' last year. Students and outside activists took over buildings, vandalised property, assaulted Jewish students, glorified the now-deceased Hamas leader who was the architect of the October 7 massacre, and made life generally miserable for those wanting to get on with learning. But there were anti-Israel demonstrations all over the country, including Emerson College, George Mason University, Georgetown, Princeton, and the University of Michigan. At Cornell, professor Russell Rickford told student demonstrators he felt 'exhilarated' by the barbaric October 7 attacks. Little wonder then that Cornell doctoral student Momodou Taal, a UK resident of Gambian origin, felt safe participating in protests and declaring his 'solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine'. Taal is a foreign student, here on a visa. Cornell decided not to disenroll him, likely because that would have required them to notify US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which controls a national Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database. Losing student status in SEVIS removes a foreigner's legal means to remain in the US. But students can also be deported for violating US immigration law, under which 'Any alien – who endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization … is inadmissible' to the United States. That means they not only should not get a visa in the first place, but if they misbehave after they get one, they can be arrested and put into deportation proceedings. On Jan 29, president Trump gave an executive order titled Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism. He tasked federal agencies with 'familiarizing institutions of higher education with the grounds for inadmissibility' of foreign students, 'so that such institutions may monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff' and 'if warranted' take action resulting in their deportation. Most US colleges and universities are dependent on federal money for research grants, student loans, and other subsidies. If Trump means business, they stand to lose this gravy train if they fail to police their campuses. American donors, and perhaps parents, will also be watching carefully. Universities that fail to act are risking their futures. Simon Hankinson is senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
