An effort to slow the aging clock left a Florida couple seemingly older and sicker than ever — and started investigators on the trail of a company selling a knockoff of the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox. Chiropractor Eric Kaplan and his wife, Bonnie, say they were given what they thought were Botox injections just before Thanksgiving by Bach McComb, an Florida osteopath that Kaplan knew professionally. (Related: 219 doctors purchase Botox knockoff) Prosecutors now say McComb had bought botulinum toxin directly from a California company, then failed to dilute it adequately with saline before injecting the Kaplans, himself and a co-worker at the medical clinic where he worked. Investigators now say that Tucson-based Toxin Research International and its subsidiaries were making an unapproved version of Botox by purchasing Botulinum toxin for just under $10 a vial from List Biological Laboratories in California and selling it to doctors as a wrinkle treatment for $1,250 a vial during 2003 and 2004.
Source: usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2005-02-21-botoxside-usat_x.htm

So the doctor in Florida got the toxin from a company in California called “List Biological Laboratories.” I had not heard of them until I later reviewed a case for the Medical Board in California. The injured people are going after them in court. Allergan lucked out on this one as from what I read the “illegal” stuff worked at the proper dilution.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD