A creatine factory located in Jundiaí, in the interior of São Paulo, was closed by the police for not having a license to make dietary supplements.
According to a report shown by the program Fantasticfrom TV Globo, the company supplied the product to Soldiers Nutrition, owned by Yuri Silveira de Abreu and Fabiula de Arruda Freire, known as the “king and queen of creatine”.
Police officers from the State Department of Criminal Investigations (Deic), of the São Paulo Civil Police, had already seized thousands of units of the company’s food supplements last month during the execution of warrants against businesspeople.
Soldiers’ defense said the “police investigation used some unfounded claims.”
The lawyers also claim that the “products seized in third-party establishments have not undergone forensic examination”, and that “there is no report that questions the quality of their supplements”.
The defense also says that “businesspeople, employees and collaborators were unfairly harmed by the investigation”.
Soldier has its own factory, but also hires others to meet sales demand.
Substance supplementation has become increasingly popular among physical activity practitioners and elderly people, in search of better physical performance and health benefits.
Messages exchanged by Soldiers leaders also broadcast by Fantastic had access mention quality changes in the products pointed out by customers, such as caking, presence of larvae and spider webs inside the creatine pots.
The Whey Protein sold by the company would also have caused complaints from customers, who would have found plastic and a piece of rubber similar to a glove or bladder inside the packaging.
In the police operation at the beginning of November, health surveillance agents reported having found “products unsuitable for sale and consumption” and the lack of “protection devices against the entry of pests”.
18 brands sold in Brazil were rejected
In October, the Brazilian Association of Nutritional Product Companies (Abenutri) evaluated 88 brands sold in Brazil to measure the degree of purity of the substance – 18 were rejected, ten of which did not have any creatine in their composition. In this test, the Soldiers sample passed.
The law stipulates that the supplement must contain at least 80% pure creatine.
This content was originally published in Supplier of the company “King and Queen of Creatine” is banned in SP on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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