Posts Tagged: ingredients

Proposed ‘FAST Act’ directly assaults CA’s restaurant industry

Diners at an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, (Photo: The Image Party, via Shutterstock)

by JOT CONDIE posted 08.08.2022

OPINION: The California Legislature is back in session after its annual summer recess, and over the course of this month, there will be hearings on hundreds of measures. Those include one that is a direct assault on the restaurant industry, as well as working families dealing with the dramatic rise in costs for the goods and services they rely on.

‘Rhino pills,’ sold as male sex booster, land O.C. man in hot water

A display of "rhino pills," seen in many gas stations across the country. (Photo: Amy Martyn, FairWarning)

by AMY MARTYN, FairWarning posted 02.09.2021

In 2015, Nam Hyun Lee, a South Korean living in Southern California, got into the lucrative business of making herbal, over-the-counter sex supplements for men. He put an aggressive-looking rhinoceros on the label, and over the next several years shipped 10,000 capsules of “Rhino 69 9000” or “Rhino 8 8000” to distributors in Maryland and Texas, according an indictment by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana.