Overview
- State health officials and the attorney general filed a complaint in San Diego Superior Court against Ashlynn Marketing Group, the Santee company behind Krave‑branded kratom products.
- The filing says CDPH embargoed all kratom at the facility after a 2025 inspection, then investigators later found embargoed goods moved, tampered with, and repackaged.
- Prosecutors seek a court order to stop production and sales, destroy all embargoed materials, and levy civil penalties.
- Officials point to reports linking kratom to recent overdose deaths, including six in Los Angeles County, and to a statewide warning that products with kratom or 7‑hydroxymitragynine are illegal to sell in California.
- The action sits within a wider crackdown that included ABC visits to thousands of retailers with 95% compliance, plus local steps such as Los Angeles County’s 2025 call for stores to stop sales and new Riverside County rules.