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Sport company, owner plead guilty to illegal distribution

By The Associated Press

ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Attorney in Virginia says a North Carolina man and his sport supplement company have pleaded guilty to selling unapproved drugs with the intent to defraud a federal agency as well as consumers.

Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel P. Bubar said in a news release that 47-year-old Brian Michael Parks of Apex, North Carolina, and MedFitRX Inc., now known as MedFit Sarmacuticals Inc., in Cary, North Carolina, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Virginia.

Parks admitted that from approximately June 2017 to September 2019, he and his company unlawfully distributed a number of substances that were not only not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but came with health warnings.

America 250: The shift from products to platforms

By John Aaron
The story of the Internet of Things begins not with a high-tech gadget, but with a simple soda machine in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The school says that in the early 1980s, a group of graduate students found themselves repeatedly frustrated by a Coca-Cola vending machine that was often empty or stocked with warm bottles. Tired of wasting time on fruitless trips to the machine, they decided to do something about it.
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