article_snippet: Amazon.com and caffeine powder distributors didn't provide proper warnings about the supplement's dangers, resulting in the death of an Ohio high school student last year, their son said in a lawsuit filed Friday.
article_snippet: Contentious: Stiner's parents have claimed in a lawsuit the caffeine supplement Stiner's parents son bought on Amazon, called Hard Rhino, was not properly packaged pharmaceutical-grade powder .
article_snippet: The lawsuit names as defendants a classmate who gave Stiner the caffeine powder; Amazon, which shipped it to the woman last March; and six Arizona-based companies that the father's attorney said packaged and sold properly packaged pharmaceutical-grade powder under the name Hard Rhino.
article_snippet: Balser said that after the death of a college student in Georgia in June and a consumer warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Hard Rhino stopped selling caffeine powder on Amazon.
article_snippet: Balser said, however, that Balser ordered powdered caffeine from another company off the Internet two weeks ago. '
article_snippet: a lawsuit the caffeine supplement their son bought on Amazon focuses on the Hard Rhino package label.
article_snippet: the Hard Rhino package label also warned that the powder 'can be dangerous if abused,' and 'failure to follow safety guidelines can result in serious injury or death,' a lawsuit the caffeine supplement their son bought on Amazon said.
article_snippet: a lawsuit the caffeine supplement their son bought on Amazon claims that the Hard Rhino package label lacked specific instructions on proper use. '
article_snippet: Hard Rhino sold the powder ' as a dietary supplement, which allows the company to bypass FDA regulations, Balser said.