On Tuesday April 11, 2023, the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) decided to withdraw from sale Trex brand detox products that can cause serious side effects.
Since the 1980s, the slimming market and thinning jumped. Detox tea, fat-burning food supplements, appetite suppressant capsules… There are a plethora of products. Thus, according to the National Syndicate of Food Supplements, the French market for food supplements has reached a turnover of more than 2.3 billion euros in 2021. Caution, however, if you have purchased products from the Trex brand sold in stores and on the Internet. Indeed, on Tuesday April 11, 2023, the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) ordered the removal from sale of Trex Tea infusions, Trex Cap capsules and Trex Plus tablets.
“We have been informed by the network of regional pharmacovigilance centers and poison control and toxicovigilance centers of numerous adverse effects in around twenty people who have consumed [ces] products”, thus informed the ANSM. After an analysis of the said products, the health authorities have thus detected sibutramine And sildenafil, an active substance present in Viagra, in their composition. The problem? Sibutramine, a treatment for obesity that has been banned from sale in 2010. heart rhythm disorders, epileptic seizuresheadache, dizziness, tachycardia, chest pain, hypertension… In France, about twenty people have presented these sometimes serious side effects after consuming Trex products. “If people still have these products, they should stop using them immediately. We throw them away!” alerted to franceinfo the director general of the ANSM, doctor Christelle Ratignier-Carbonneil.
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Trex food supplements: watch out for “detox” products!
In response to this ruling on Trex brand products, Christelle Ratignier-Carbonneil insisted on more generally call for vigilance on so-called “detox” products. “It’s not because we have products with written [dessus] “detox” or “natural” that it is safe“, she assured our colleagues. And to continue: “The two listed components (sibutramine and sildenafil) do not appear in the list of drug components. We are therefore of course falsification. This is the reason why, when you are in a process that will affect your health or your appearance, you have to be extremely careful.[…]It is therefore dangerous to rely on products with miraculous claims.”