February 12, 2009

Hocked By Celebs, Some Natural Diet Pills Spiked With Drugs

There was a fairly alarming article in the New York Times about how some allegedly natural diet pills are turning out to have all manner of drugs in them. One celeb who mouthed support for StarCaps was Kathie Lee Gifford, another was an NFL player.

"And StarCaps are not the only culprits. In a continuing investigation that has prompted consumer warnings and recalls by some distributors, the F.D.A. has determined that dozens of weight-loss supplements, most of them imported from China, contain hidden and potentially harmful drugs. In the coming weeks, the agency plans to issue a longer list of brands to avoid that are spiked with drugs, an F.D.A. spokeswoman said."

The FDA's current list is here. I expect we'll be hearing more on this in coming weeks.

I'll just never understand what drives some people to stick undeclared ingredients into products of any sort. I mean, I know it's money and greed, but there's a certain heartlessness there that I just don't get.

I've noted before that Seroquel's raw ingredients come from China and last November the Times had a spectacular article on the FDA's bumbling attempts to inspect drugmakers in China. No disrespect to anyone from China, but with what's gone on with tainted toys, tainted milk products, tainted Heparin and now tainted diet pills emanating from China, I think it's time for the FDA to consider banning pharma products and supplements from that country, absent some guarantee of purity by a reliable source. I'm no fan of banning much of anything, but this is simply getting out of hand.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at February 12, 2009 12:03 AM
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Agreed.

Posted by: Marissa at February 12, 2009 02:07 PM

that's just great. no wonder I have months that are way shittier than other months all of a sudden once I get a new refill on my seroquel. that's it I am doccumenting by video the process of getting my rx, opening the bottle, putting it in a sealed certified mail envelope addressed to a lab that an attorney suggests to me and getting my shit tested for purity and active ingredients - with a reliable whitness present (law enforcement officer) AND I am taking to that same attorney the MANY left over pills I have laying around from previous refills (I keep them in random places in my house just in case I can't get a refill in time so I AlREADY have plenty to be tested but NOW I am going to do this the right way because if there is anything to this I want that greedy evil company to pay, and I WILL make it my full time job to get enough people together to start a class action and get everyone and anyone who has been harmed, or their families should they be deceased, justice and compensation for whatever resultant emotional and career etc destroying and devastating effects they had to deal with due to this companies never ending greed and willingness to put peoples lives at risk just to make/save a few extra bucks).

I had my suspicions about my seroquel being waaaaaaaaaay more "effective" some months and others leaving me out in the rain without an umbrella but now that I know that crap (that crap I need for the time being unfortunately) is made in china I KNOW that there is something to my monthly, bi or tri monthly mood fluctuations (f*cktuations) when I open a new (sealed) bottle of seroquel and start on it. I have lost countless weeks to not being able to work due to either being soooooo oversedated from the same dose I always take to being completely off my rocker aggitated and unable to knock myself out with double and tripple my usual (as per the last pills of the last rx I filled dose) dose and I am going to prove what I had suspected and sue the living shit out of astra zenica.

and its not JUST that I'm bipolar, these mood fluctuations corralate DIRECTLY to my opening a new (sealed from AZ) bottle when I get my monthly refill.

thank you for this article philip and thank you for mentioning that seroquel is made in china in it.

Anyone else who has/suspects they have this problem with their seroquel should contact me at:
last_stop_trainwreck@hotmail.com

I am going to contact a lawyer. someone is bound to see the potential for big time compensation for the type of pain and suffering and work loss etc. that can obviously be caused by a medication having unreliable ingredients.
I wonder if those poor soldiers that died from the seroquel cymbalta combination died in the same months and what sort of blood levels of seroquel was found in their autopsies as compared to what they had left of their rx's for the months. that would be so super fuct up. unreliable doses of active ingredient in medications has killed plenty of people and it is WRONG for companies to not test the reliability of EVERY batch of their medications correctly. It's their damn job to find reliable labs to do this and I am sure there is a willing and able whistle blower somewhere who would be more than happy to turn in their company for doing things that can and may have killed people.

Posted by: katielou82 at February 12, 2009 10:35 PM
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