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The Chemins Company is a dietary supplement manufacturer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The company, founded in 1974 by James Cameron, became embroiled in a series of criminal investigations in 1994 after a woman died and more than 100 other people became ill after taking one of the company’s products marketed under the brand name Nature's Nutrition Formula One.〔 The adverse events were later linked to the product having been tainted with ephedrine. A three-year federal investigation, which revealed that the company had doctored records, misled FDA investigators, and purposely hindered inspections, led to Cameron being sentenced to 21 months in prison and him and the company being fined $4.7 million . The company also paid out $750,000 to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the company's protein powder supplements contained approximately half the protein content and twice the carbohydrate content listed on the label.〔〔 Chemins was the manufacturer of dietary supplements for the multi-level marketing companies Metabolife (i.e., Metabolife 356, an ephedra-based supplement that was withdrawn following numerous adverse event reports) and LifeVantage (i.e., Protandim, an herbal-based supplement).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= LifeVantage Corp - 10KSB/A (Filed 06 January 2006) )〕 Chemins' assets were acquired by Nexgen Pharma in 2007. ==Nature's Nutrition Formula One== Chemins initially came under regulatory scrutiny following a series of serious adverse event reports by consumers of Chemins' Nature's Nutrition Formula One. These reports led to an investigation of Chemins by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Consumer Litigation, and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver, Colorado. The investigation of Chemins was expanded subsequent to an incident on New Year’s Eve 1994, when police officers intercepted a 1,200-pound shipment of ephedrine (a methamphetamine precursor) aboard a truck that had crashed on an icy road near Colorado Springs while en route to an underground methamphetamine manufacturing lab.〔〔 Container labels indicated to police that the chemicals originated from Chemins; however, when informed about the incident, Chemins president James Cameron denied that the company ever possessed or used ephedrine in its products. Criminal proceedings were launched against Chemins and Cameron, and on July 7, 2000, following a three-year investigation, a Federal judge in Denver sentenced Cameron to 21 months in jail and fined him and Chemins 4.7 million dollars. In his plea agreement, Cameron admitted that he and his company had labeled Formula One as "all natural" but secretly spiked the product with synthetic pharmaceutical grade drugs, including ephedrine and caffeine and had done so with numerous other products, including one called Supercharge, without notifying consumers. He admitted that the product's labeling failed to disclose the use of the chemicals on the list of ingredients, and that he and his employees had misled FDA investigators and purposely hindered inspections of the company’s premises. Chemins actively conspired to hide from the FDA the fact that it possessed the undisclosed ingredients by, among other things, making a late night transfer of the ingredients to an employee's home during an FDA inspection and creating false manufacturing and inventory records that were shown to FDA inspectors. The company had denied using those ingredients after being confronted about it by the FDA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chemins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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