KAVA NEWS TIMELINE

How Did We Get Here?

January 2002

• ABC News
  Kava implicated in approximately 25 cases of liver disease in Europe

March 2002

• CNN Health News
  Kava May Link To Liver Damage
• FDA Consumer Advisory:
  Kava-Containing Dietary Supplements May be Associated With Severe Liver Injury
• Time Magazine
  Why did it take the FDA so long to finally sound the alarm?
• Belluck & Fox, LLP Launches Kava Information Web Site

April 2002

• USA Today
  Kava linked to serious liver damage, including hepatitis and cirrhosis, and at least four urgent liver transplants. Kava sales halted in Switzerland and France and suspended in Britain

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