Women blame weight-loss tea for positive drug tests – Boston 25 News

BOSTON — A drink marketed to detox your physique, enhance your temper and shed weight is the topic of a category–motion lawsuit now. Several ladies say after consuming the tea they had been fired from their jobs for failing a drug take a look at.

Tina Hills stated she began consuming TLC’s raspberry lemonade iaso tea for weight reduction. Total Life Changes is an organization that sells numerous nutritional vitamins and dietary supplements for weight reduction, hair and skincare and elevated power.

“The label says 0.0 THC, so I assumed for certain that it was effective” Hills stated.

Hills stated she even turned an official distributor of the tea and inspired her staff to attempt it. But after a spherical of random drug testing for her and different employees, Hills stated she discovered she had failed and was fired from her job as an airport regional supervisor in Syracuse, New York.

She stated she misplaced the federal clearance wanted to work within the airline business too. Hills stated she referred to as Total Life Changes.

“TLC advised me that long-term use of the tea may presumably lead to a constructive testing. I defined to them, you already know, it’s a little late to search out this out now. Had I identified this to start with, I’d have by no means risked consuming this tea” Hills stated.

Women throughout the nation have reported consuming the corporate’s raspberry lemonade iaso tea and failing drug checks by testing constructive for THC, the chemical present in marijuana that makes you excessive.

“I used to be clueless, devastated, and I used to be like, ‘are you certain you could have the suitable individual?’” stated Belinda Granger, a nurse in Florida.

Granger stated she began consuming the TLC raspberry lemonade iaso tea on her weight reduction journey in January 2020. But final October when she utilized for a brand new nursing job, Granger stated she was shocked to be taught she failed the required drug take a look at.

“I wish to see that tea taken off the market” stated Pam Johnson.

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Johnson was a metropolis bus operator in Pennsylvania for 18 years and stated she had submitted quite a few drug checks and has by no means failed. But she stated that ended when she examined constructive after consuming the tea.

“I felt like the entire room was closing in. I used to be in shock. Total shock,” stated Marilyn Williams of Minnesota.

Williams stated 4 days after consuming the tea she was referred to as for a random drug take a look at. She had a high-profile job within the nuclear business in Minnesota requiring federal clearance. Williams stated she examined constructive for THC and was fired instantly, shedding her federal clearance.

“I ended up going and shopping for at-home take a look at kits. I examined the tea and certain sufficient, the tea got here up constructive,” Williams stated.

Still unemployed, Williams is now preventing TLC in court docket in a Minnesota class-action lawsuit.

A TLC spokesperson despatched us this assertion:

“We are conscious of the allegations about our iaso raspberry tea product. At TLC, we care deeply about our clients and are dedicated to their well-being. We are within the technique of studying extra in regards to the related information however will not be able to report extra absolutely at the moment. The iaso raspberry tea product stays out there on the market within the United States.”

In the United States, hemp-derived merchandise are authorized if they’ve 0.3% THC. The packaging for TLC’s raspberry lemonade iaso tea these ladies purchased stated the product contained hemp extract and 0.0% THC.

Our sister station in Charlotte had an impartial lab run checks on two samples to see if the tea contained THC. The lab’s CEO, Dr. Volker Bornemann, stated that in each samples they discovered hint quantities.

“This measured at 8.2 elements per million and the opposite confirmed 17.3, which is a low quantity, however it’s actual and measurable,” stated Bornemann.

He added that’s simply sufficient to indicate up constructive on a drug take a look at.

On the Total Life Changes web site, the packaging for the tea not advertises 0.0% THC and there’s additionally a brand new disclaimer on the backside stating:

“We don’t suggest use if you’re topic to drug testing.”

Hills remains to be unemployed and stated she desires her story to function a warning for others.

“This simply made me look actually dangerous,” she stated.

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