Another powdered caffeine warning letter issued, highlighting FDA’s plight in combing through flood of imports
A warning letter sent to a Connecticut wholesaler about the sale of pure powdered caffeine points to the difficulty of keeping problematic products off the market in an environment in which hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo arrives in domestic ports every day.
The letter was sent to a company called Trippo International LLC, a wholesaler based in Newington, CT. Trippo offers a quirky blend of products mostly aimed at CBD vaping and the smoking of hemp. But it also carries some goods that have a potential nutritional use, such as powder lactose and powdered forms of mannitol. Both of these can be used as diluents in formulas meant to be inhaled or snorted.