The coffee, which is packaged in 25-gram black foil packs and promoted as a natural male enhancement product, may be responsible for a man’s death. Although the distributor hasn’t said whether the coffee was a direct factor in the death, the man died after using the coffee.
The FDA’s lab analyzed the coffee and found both tadalafil and sildenafil, the active ingredients in ED drugs (Cialis and Viagra, respectively) available by prescription only. These drugs are known to be dangerous when used in conjunction with common heart medications, but the drugs were not mentioned on the product’s label.
Although the distributor’s website did say that people with heart conditions should always consult a doctor before beginning “any regiment,” there was also a promise that “as a safe natural herb, this will not have any toxicity.”
And though the website did also include a disclaimer explaining that the FDA had not evaluated the product and that the coffee wasn’t intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, no one would ever see it due to a loophole: While food labeling laws require a certain type size and placement, there’s no requirement on the text’s color. The distributor used white text on a white background on its website.
The distributor, a truck driver named Brian Richardson, who also owns the website, says the hidden text was accidental. He claims that he didn’t know the supplement was tainted and that he doesn’t believe the man—who he knew—died because of the coffee.
Richardson isn’t the only distributor of the herbal coffee. But several other sites, such as Amazon and eBay, appear to have taken down their pages promoting the sale of Caverflo.
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