may cause adverse cardiovascular effects

The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has requested immediately withdraw several brands from the market weight loss products if it is discovered that they contain a harmful substance.

This was announced in a statement in which order the immediate withdrawal of these species weight loss products from all distribution channels, and also recommend not to use them if you have already purchased them.

These products, which include Soraya capsules, HHS Kuka Café, Soraya Slim Coffee Café, Lipo solution and detox tea.were discovered as part of Operation Butterfly, carried out by the consumer group of the Central Directorate UDEV of the General Commissioner’s Office of the Judicial Police.

The organization said in a statement that the official control laboratory AEMPS had found the active substance in some products. sibutramine in sufficient quantity to give legal status to medicinal products.

“This substance is not declared on its labels, giving false information about its safety and which can cause serious harm to the health of people who consume it.“,” they note. The use of sibutramine was suspended in Europe in 2010 after it was found to cause significant adverse cardiovascular effects.

Sibutramine acts as an appetite suppressant, increasing feelings of fullness and calorie expenditure, but it also increases heart rate and blood pressure, which can be dangerous for some patients. Its use has been linked to arrhythmias, coronary heart disease and serious vascular accidentsamong other health problems.