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Firm accused of smuggling erectile drug

18 January 2008 (Friday)

The owner and two employees of a Phoenix nutritional-supplement company are accused of smuggling a version of the erectile-dysfunction drug Viagra from China and selling it as a sexual-enhancement product to consumers via the Internet and retail stores.

Ultra Health Laboratories marketed Vinarol as an all-natural herbal dietary supplement even though it contained sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient in Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra.

A federal grand jury in Phoenix this week indicted Timothy K. Isaac, 46, of Avondale and Bryan P. Gillette, 46, and Laura C. Gillette, 45, both of Scottsdale, on 31 counts, including introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commerce, failing to register a drug-manufacturing establishment, mail and wire fraud, and money laundering.

The Gillettes were arrested Thursday and remain in jail pending an initial U.S. District Court appearance scheduled this afternoon. Isaac has been issued a summons and will be arraigned later. A woman who described herself as Isaac's daughter-in-law told The Republic that Isaac was not available to talk Thursday. Isaac and the Gillettes face fines and maximum prison sentences ranging from three years for failing to register a drug-manufacturing establishment to 20 years for money laundering and mail and wire fraud.

The Food and Drug Administration requires consumers have a doctor's prescription to purchase sildenafil citrate because of the drug's potential harmful side effects. The drug opens capillaries to increase blood flow and heart rate and can contribute to heart attack or stroke if improperly mixed with certain heart and blood-thinning medications.

Despite the potential harmful drug interactions involving sildenafil citrate, federal authorities say Ultra Health widely sold the product to consumers. The company's products were sold to consumers in the United States and abroad via Web sites, wholesale distributors and retailers such as Albertsons.

Ultra Health advertised and labeled Vinarol as a "100 percent natural all-herbal" sexual-enhancement product that did "not require any costly or embarrassing doctor's visit or prescription," according the federal indictment.

The company collected $7.5 million in Vinarol sales from February 2002 through April 2003, according to the indictment.

Isaac was president and owner of Ultra Health as well as two affiliate companies, Bionate International and Johnston-Keay Laboratories. Bryan Gillette was vice president and plant manager of Ultra Health. His wife, Laura, was an employee.

The indictment says that Ultra Health repeatedly imported from China sildenafil citrate that was mixed with herbal products to mask its color and texture. The product's ingredients were falsely labeled on U.S. customs forms.

Ultra Health continued to import the drug ingredient from China and sell it to consumers even after being informed that a test conducted by the South Korean government showed the drug was similar to Viagra.

When one distributor pointed out Vinarol's similarity to Viagra, the Phoenix company provided a forged document that claimed federal drug investigators had analyzed and approved the drug.

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Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 18, 2008 12:00 AM

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