TY - JOUR T1 - Sale of kava extract in some health food stores JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 1158 LP - 1159 VL - 169 IS - 11 AU - Edward Mills AU - Rana Singh AU - Cory Ross AU - Edzard Ernst AU - Joel G. Ray Y1 - 2003/11/25 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/169/11/1158.abstract N2 - IN JANUARY 2002, HEALTH CANADA ISSUED AN ADVISORY, followed by a ban in August 2002, on the sale of herbal kava. One month after the advisory, 22 (67%) of 33 health food stores approached were selling kava. Two months after the ban, 17 (57%) of 30 stores continued to sell kava. These findings demonstrate that health food stores may need to be better informed about the sale of restricted natural health products. ER -