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Diet Pills and Health: Fenfluramine Chinese PillsFDA Health Warning About Chinese Diet PillsThe FDA is warning the public about Chinese diet pills containing Fenfluramine; specifically the Chinese weight-loss products, Chaso (Jianfei) Diet Capsules and Chaso Genpi, because they pose a potential public health risk. Diet Pills Linked to DeathsThe FDA is alerting the public to this health risk because several people in Japan have become ill, and some have died, after consuming these diet products. Products of this type are often sold in small urban markets as alternatives to Western medicine. In 2001, FDA issued a nationwide alert on the recall of thirteen "Treasure of the East" herbal dietary supplements because of a dangerous ingredient, aristolochic acid, which is toxic to the kidney. Fenfluramine in Diet PillsThe deaths in Japan linked to these Chinese diet pills may have resulted from the presence of such active drug ingredients as fenfluramine in the capsules. Fenfluramine and another diet drug, phentermine, were used in combination for weight loss until it was determined that the combination of drugs was linked to valvulopathy, a serious and sometimes fatal heart disease. Fenfluramine and a chemically similar drug, dexfenfluramine, were removed from the market in 1997. Phentermine, when used alone, has not been associated with valvulopathy and remains on the market. Source: FDA (August 2002) For more information about health issues and diet pills, click: Diet Pills
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