The Oregon Department of Justice has filed legal papers to force 5-Hour Energy drink to hand over unredacted data that back its advertising claims.

Those assertions include that 73 percent of 3,000 doctors recommend the drink, that people who drink it don’t experience a “crash” when the effects wear off and that the product may be suitable for teens.

The makers of a popular energy drink are fighting Oregon's requests for data as part of a false-advertising probe.

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s health fraud unit filed the papers in Multnomah County Circuit Court last week against the drink’s makers and marketers: Innovation Ventures LLC, Living Essentials LLC and Microdose Sales LLC.

Oregon is part of a five-state executive committee leading a 33-state investigation into the accuracy of the two-ounce, caffeinated drink’s claims.

The states are concerned about the drink’s safety. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration database contains 92 “adverse incident reports” involving 5-hour Energy, including spontaneous abortion, heart attacks and 11 fatalities.

In April, 5-Hour Energy gave Oregon’s health fraud unit documents, but some of the information -- including specific amounts of ingredients -- was redacted. The state hopes to use the ingredient amounts to investigate the drink’s claim that people who consume it don’t experience a post-use crash.

In June, the companies

trying to block state investigators from getting the unredacted information.

That led to Friday’s demand by the health fraud unit for the unredacted data. The demand states drink representatives must show up to the downtown offices of the Oregon Department of Justice with the documents Feb. 15.

-- Aimee Green