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You’ve all taken Purity First B-50 vitamins.” VINCENT GROSSO: We had an examination, and he said to me, “What is it that all of you who have come to me in the past month and a half have one commonality. And that’s why he had recommended people go see this other doctor. At that point, we had just had Hurricane Sandy come through, and a lot of people were getting sick after they were in their basements cleaning up water. Dulin declined to be interviewed and denies any responsibility.ĬANDICE TRIPP: Terry had come to me in January and asked me if I thought anything was wrong because he said there was some blood tests coming back that were funky. GILLIAN FINDLAY: They were all taking the same vitamins, recommended, they say, by Terence Dulin, the chiropractor, now a naturopath. I’m talking to another woman, who said, “I’ve got these incredible bleeding scales on my head, and I can’t go to work.” VINCENT GROSSO: I’m hearing stories- “My daughter is an honor student and she’s on the swim team, but she’s been thrown out of school for being overly aggressive.” I’m talking to a woman who had lost her position in a choir because her voice had changed. He then started hearing from other Purity First customers with troubling symptoms of their own.

GILLIAN FINDLAY: It started with unexplained back pain that soon became debilitating. I’m feeling great up until the October, November, December timeframe of 2012, where I had some very unusual symptoms. And of course, you know, I’m running every day.

The vitamins became part of his daily quest for better health. GILLIAN FINDLAY: Vinnie Grosso was an early Purity First customer. VINCENT GROSSO, Purity First Customer: Purity First is a great name, and I said,“Gee, how can you go wrong?” It’s what you would imagine that you would want in every single vitamin, that it’s absolutely pure. GILLIAN FINDLAY: From modest beginnings, she grew the business into a half-a-million-dollar-a-year enterprise, selling on the Web, in stores and through local alternative health care providers. He was a chemist in college, and then he went on to chiropractic school. And what was his academic background or expertise in this area?ĬANDICE TRIPP: He was a chemist. She says she was helped by her then husband, Terence Dulin, a chiropractor. GILLIAN FINDLAY: Candice Tripp called her company Purity First. GILLIAN FINDLAY: So you sort of were self-taught, then, were you?ĬANDICE TRIPP: Self-taught, correct. GILLIAN FINDLAY: Do you have background in pharmacology or medicine or any expertise in this area?ĬANDICE TRIPP: I did some college, but most of my time was spent in the medical libraries at Stonybrook. I would order the ingredients, I would order the capsules, and with a plate of 100 capsules, I would weigh it out and fill them up, and you have a bottle of 100 capsules of any particular vitamin you wanted. GILLIAN FINDLAY: Companies range from big pharma to mom and pop.ĬANDICE TRIPP, Owner, Purity First: I started in my kitchen making them by hand back in the ‘80s. TRADE SHOW SALESMAN: I will guarantee you that this will change your reality within three to five days. GILLIAN FINDLAY: It’s a $30-plus billion industry. TRADE SHOW SALESMAN: -encapsulates the nutrients in a non-GMO soy. TRADE SHOW SALESMAN: That one is going to be amazing for supporting. GILLIAN FINDLAY, Correspondent: It’s estimated that half of all Americans take a health supplement every day. TRADE SHOW SALESMAN: It would be great for older individuals that are concerned about. TRADE SHOW SALESMAN: This is a product that was formulated for people who are severely.