Conjugated Linoleic Acid: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Conjugated Linoleic Acid is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Sold as
- Cla
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every conjugated linoleic acid product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Cla.
What people report to the FDA about conjugated linoleic acid
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 70 reports naming conjugated linoleic acid, and the FDA flagged 43% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- dizziness6 reports
- fatigue5 reports
- nausea5 reports
- pruritus5 reports
- diarrhoea4 reports
- dyspnoea4 reports
- arthralgia3 reports
- headache3 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean conjugated linoleic acid caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Cla?
A fatty acid marketed for body composition; evidence is mixed.
Can you take conjugated linoleic acid with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run conjugated linoleic acid against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
Is there a generic conjugated linoleic acid?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled conjugated linoleic acid product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Cite this page
- APA
- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Conjugated Linoleic Acid: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/conjugated-linoleic-acid
- MLA
- “Conjugated Linoleic Acid: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/conjugated-linoleic-acid.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for conjugated linoleic acid on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.