Take note! SFA warns against these products as they could cause heart attack and stroke!

Take note! SFA warns against these products as they could cause heart attack and stroke!

Channel NewsAsia - SG·2024-10-09 12:01

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has detected banned substances in three "detox slimming" food products sold online, it said in a media release on Tuesday (Oct 8).

The products, found on various local e-commerce platforms, are marketed as weight loss products for fat burning, appetite suppression and accelerating metabolism, among other claims. 

Two of them - Lemo A Detox Slimming Sachets and Lemo S Detox Slimming Sachets - were found to have sibutramine, a prescription-only weight loss medicine banned in Singapore since 2010. Sibutramine increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, among other health consequences.

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