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More tainted weight loss products

JR

Here’s an updated list of 69 contaminated products identified by the FDA.

What’s a consumer to think?

On December 22, 2008, the FDA warned consumers not to purchase or consume 28 different products marketed for weight loss. Since then, the FDA identified 41 more tainted weight loss products that may put consumers health at risk.

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a weight loss prescription drug), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an anti-seizure medication), phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent) and bumetanide (a diuretic).

Some of the amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients far exceeded the FDA-recommended levels, putting consumers’ health at risk.

The bottom line?
There are so many of these products on the market, the prudent consumer should assume they contain undeclared drugs until proven otherwise.

  • 2 Day Diet
  • 2 Day Diet Slim Advance
  • 21 Double Slim
  • 2x Powerful Slimming
  • 3 Day Diet
  • 3 Days Fit
  • 3x Slimming Power
  • 5x Imelda Perfect Slimming
  • 7 Day Herbal Slim
  • 7 Days Diet
  • 7 Diet
  • 7 Diet Day/Night Formula
  • 8 Factor Diet
  • 999 Fitness Essence
  • BioEmagrecin
  • Body Creator
  • Body Shaping
  • Body Slimming
  • Cosmo Slim
  • Eight Factor Diet
  • Extrim Plus
  • Extrim Plus 24 Hour Reburn
  • Fasting Diet
  • Fatloss Slimming
  • GMP
  • Imelda Fat Reducer
  • Imelda Perfect Slim
  • Japan Lingzhi 24 Hours Diet
  • JM Fat Reducer
  • Lida DaiDaihua
  • Meili
  • Meizitang
  • Miaozi MeiMiaoQianZiJiaoNang
  • Miaozi Slim Capsules
  • Natural Model
  • Perfect Slim
  • Perfect Slim 5x
  • Perfect Slim Up
  • Phyto Shape
  • Powerful Slim
  • ProSlim Plus
  • Reduce Weihgt
  • Royal Slimming Formula
  • Sana Plus
  • Slim 3 in 1
  • Slim 3 in 1 Extra Slim Formula
  • Slim 3 in 1 Extra Slim Waist Formula
  • Slim 3 in 1 M18 Royal Diet
  • Slim 3 in 1 Slim Formula
  • Slim Burn
  • Slim Express 360
  • Slim Express 4 in 1
  • Slim Fast
  • Slim Up
  • Slim Waist Formula
  • Slim Waistline
  • Sliminate
  • Slimming Formula
  • Slimtech
  • Somotrim
  • Starcaps
  • Super Fat Burner
  • Super Slimming
  • Superslim
  • Trim 2 Plus
  • TripleSlim
  • Venom Hyperdrive 3.0
  • Waist Strength Formula
  • Zhen de Shou

1/27/09 20:27 JR

Hi, I’m JR

John Russo, Jr., PharmD, is president of The MedCom Resource, Inc. Previously, he was senior vice president of medical communications at www.Vicus.com, a complementary and alternative medicine website.

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