huge increase in the amount of fake Reductil type products

More bad news for Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturers of the appetite suppressant and diet drug Reductil is that the US Food & Drug Administration has decided to withdraw it from sale. Despite the fact that the advisory committee who were charged with looking into the side effects of Reductil did not recommend withdrawing it the FDA decided to play it safe for the meantime. In fact the vote of the advisory committee was evenly split, eight votes to eight votes.

At Ukmedix News we are 100 percent behind safety and proper clinical testing but we are disappointed by this decision because it was motivated by one clinical test called SCOUT which concluded that men and women who had existing heart conditions should not take Reductil, and it did not properly take into account that this drug was helping tens of thousands of people to lose weight who did not have heart conditions.

All that is going to happen now is that the illegal manufacturers of fake and dangerous weight loss medications are going to become extremely rich as they peddle fake versions of Reductil which they will claim are natural or herbal.  Ukmedix News has seen how since Reductil was pulled in the United Kingdom there has been a huge increase in the amount of fake Reductil type products being sold on the internet.

It is very clear in the packaging and labeling of Reductil that people who have existing heart problems should not use this product and so why the FDA and EMEA decided to prevent its sale on the basis of the SCOUT study which only confirmed what they already knew is baffling.

The great thing about legal Reductil is the fact that it is a prescription medication which requires a doctor's consultation and therefore is not readily available. The banning of Reductil now means that people who want to get appetite suppressants will end up getting them online from unscrupulous web traders who will not warn them about the side effects, and who will continue to supply them even if it is not right for the patient.

Ukmedix News has also seen how many of the so called herbal remedies laced with the active ingredient of Reductil namely sibutramine, contain far too much of this compound and how individual tablets within the same packaging have different amounts of it.