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This morning, the New York Times‘ Instagram account posted a reel about their investigation into AI-generated characters that look like influencers, medical professionals, or everyday people touting the benefits of dietary supplements—an industry known to be a highly unregulated product category in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it “regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering ‘conventional’ foods and drug products.”
For at least the eighth time this year, the FDA has published a recall on moringa. Tracking with a repeated risk for moringa, the issue is food safety—specifically, the FDA notice says, Salmonella presence discovered among a single lot of moringa capsules sold between December 2025 and July 2026.
Zen Principle brand, also evidently doing business as Relay Peak Research LLC, “was notified by its ingredient supplier that FDA testing of the moringa leaf powder used to manufacture the product returned positive for Salmonella.”
The Cleveland Clinic calls Salmonella “the most common form of bacterial food poisoning in the U.S., with over a million people getting sick with it every year.” They also list dietary supplements as one of the “common causes” of Salmonella poisoning.
Via the FDA notice, the company says it has not received reports of illness. They add this recall is limited to lot A6FF4 of Zen Principle moringa packaged in a plastic bottle of 180 capsules with a Best By date of 11/2028 printed on the bottom. On Amazon, the product is reportedly offered as a one-pack bearing Amazon code FNSKU X000ZJJ4FT and a twin-pack of 360 capsules with Amazon code FNSKU X00159YJXP.
The Cleveland Clinic notes moringa’s growing mainstream popularity for its dense source of nutrients. Moringa benefits might include metabolism support and antioxidative properties that may help fight inflammation.
Research in 2019 said the plant is native to Asia and Africa. Sources, such as a Colorado scientific testing lab, have suggested moringa is uniquely vulnerable to pathogens like Salmonella due to variability in hygiene practices throughout its supply chain and the idea that is often processed raw and in the absence of temperatures that kill off infectious microbes.
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