Chinese slimming capsules
Found on PhysOrg on Tuesday, 07 April 2009
Taking herbal food supplements is certainly not free of risk. Since 2005, the poison emergency centers in the German cities of Freiburg and Goettingen have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking Chinese slimming capsules.
The authors report on a slimming pill on sale over the Internet. According to the advertising, this contains herbal substances and is declared as a food supplement.
If only these pills were deadly. That would be one way to get rid of those idiots who buy questionable medicine online; those people are the reason for all that pharma-spam. Not only do they buy from spam, but even chinese spamvertised medicine. They haven't learn from lead in toys, melamine in milk and spam in inboxes.