Shocking, most of dietary supplements on the market contains illegal drugs
News24xx.com - Dietary supplements that are widely circulating around the world turned out contain illegal drugs that were not approved its circulation. The latest analysis from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found hundreds of dietary supplements sold made from illegal drugs.
In the study published in the JAMA Network Open, there were nearly 800 dietary supplements sold in 2007 to 2016 containing illegal drugs. As many as 20 percent of them contain more than one illegal drug. In many cases, almost 9 percent of illegal drug are not included in the supplement label. The presence of drugs that are not approved in these diet supplements can endanger the health of the users.
"These products have the potential to cause adverse health effects due to unintentional abuse, overuse, or interaction with other drugs, underlying health conditions, or other drugs in the same supplement" the researcher, Madhur Kumar, as quoted from CNN.
Most dietary supplements that contain illegal drugs consist of 45 percent for sexual enhancement, 41 percent for weight loss or 12 percent for muscle formation. Medications found in sexually enhancing products such as sildenafil, tadalafil, and vardenafil. The active ingredients in this drug for erectile dysfunction, if used excessively, can cause serious damage to blood vessels.
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