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FDA bans diet pill sale
By Cyril Li |
January 9, 2009, Friday
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CHINA'S top food and drug regulator has ordered a halt to the sale and production of a diet pill because of its side effects.
Fenfluramine Hydrochloride may cause heart disease, high blood pressure, blood in the urine or rashes, Yan Jiangying, spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration, quoted the administration's Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center as saying.
The drug suppresses appetite by altering the brain levels of serotonin, and was used in the management of obesity but was withdrawn from the United States' market in 2000 after deaths and reports of cardiovascular related complications, such as heart valve disorders, pulmonary hypertension and cardiac fibrosis.
China's FDA also banned it as a food additive or health care product, according to Yan.
Fenfluramine was introduced to the mainland market after receiving regulatory approval in 1980s. More than 30 pharmaceutical manufacturers were allowed to produce it, but only a diet pill made from it was sold on the market.
Producers have been told to recall Fenfluramine products.
Fenfluramine Hydrochloride may cause heart disease, high blood pressure, blood in the urine or rashes, Yan Jiangying, spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration, quoted the administration's Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center as saying.
The drug suppresses appetite by altering the brain levels of serotonin, and was used in the management of obesity but was withdrawn from the United States' market in 2000 after deaths and reports of cardiovascular related complications, such as heart valve disorders, pulmonary hypertension and cardiac fibrosis.
China's FDA also banned it as a food additive or health care product, according to Yan.
Fenfluramine was introduced to the mainland market after receiving regulatory approval in 1980s. More than 30 pharmaceutical manufacturers were allowed to produce it, but only a diet pill made from it was sold on the market.
Producers have been told to recall Fenfluramine products.
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