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L.A. County health officials ordered retailers to immediately remove kratom and 7-OH products from their shelves.

Inspectors will begin visiting stores and red-tagging illegal products as early as next week.

The announcement follows reports of six kratom-related deaths in L.A. in recent months.

Los Angeles county officials are set to pull kratom and its synthetic extract, sometimes called 7-OH, from shelves immediately.

Inspectors will be sent to retailers next week to begin red-tagging illegal products containing the compounds, the L.A. County Department of Public Health said in a release Friday morning. Shops that don’t comply could be hit with fines or other penalties.

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