What happened
Original notice title
Happy Hour Vitamins MARCS-CMS 593770, July 23, 2020
From the archived source record
Examples of some of the claims on your website [see original source] that provide evidence that your product is intended for use as a drug include the following: Home page: • “Multivitamin Specially Formulated to Help with Hangovers.” • “Specially formulated to help you Avoid Hangovers . . .” • “HELPS AVOID HANGOVERS!” (image of product label) • “MULTIVITAMIN SPECIALLY FORMULATED TO HELP YOU AVOID HANGOVERS” • “Convenient individual packets makes hangover prevention easy by taking 1 dose (2 hangover pills) before/while drinking.” • “KILL YOUR HANGOVER BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS with powerful vitamin, mineral, anti-oxidant, herbal blend. Preventing hangovers works better than a hangover cure or cures you can try.” • “GET RID OF TOXIC ACETALDEHYDE POISONING that adds to your hangovers with N-acetyl Cysteine [ingredient in Happy Hour Vitamins (H2V)]. The shortage of vitamins and nutrients leads to organ dehydration, after which the organs begin to steal hydration from the brain. Here is an excerpt from Annals of Internal Medicine examining the staggering cost of hangovers (Wiese et al. 2000) ‘The staggering cost of alcoholic hangover could be significantly mitigated if drinkers took the right antioxidants before going to bed.’” • “Happy Hour Vitamins contains Thiamine which has been used to help calm the effects of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.” • “Avoid Hangovers . . . with Happy Hour Vitamins” Our Story page: • “I started thinking that it would be great if there was a multivitamin specifically formulated for the drinking population. Now Happy Hour Vitamins allow me to avoid my hangovers . . .” (Home page) • “I got these for my wedding ‘Emergency Hang-over Kits’. For example: • “Happy Hour Vitamins Formulated for Hangovers . . .” • “HELPS AVOID HANGOVERS!” (image of product label) • “HAPPY HOUR VITAMINS IS A MULTIVITAMIN SPECIALLY FORMULATED TO HELP WITH HANGOVERS.
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- Status recorded in the archive
- Historical warning letter; closeout not established by annual index
- Source checked
- Jul 16, 2026
- Record revision
- 42277db4ea7c
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