TOKYO, July 22 Kyodo The health m...

TOKYO, July 22 Kyodo

The health ministry upon Monday identified Chasu as the third diet aid suspected of causing health damage among a people who have taken Chinese-made slimming fruitss and warned the public not to take it.

The ministry disclosed the name after confirming the neighborhood of N-nitroso fenfluramine in the produce as well as in sum of two units other aids already disclosed, Xianzhisu and Yuzhitang.

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry had withheld the name of the outcome citing a lack of evidence linking it to the reported health riddles including liver and thyroid gland disorders.

The substance N-nitroso fenfluramine is a chemical blend made from fenfluramine, a banned appetite suppressant, and does not exist in nature, according to the ministry.

The ministry confirmed from one side its experiments that the intermingle accounts for about 3% of the ingredients in the three effects Fenfluramine accounts for about 001% of the ingredients in Xianzhisu and about 0004% in Chasu.

Scientists at the ministry say manufacturers probably used N-nitroso fenfluramine to add an appetite-suppressing validity to the slimming returnss creating fenfluramine as a by-product in the process

They said N-nitroso settles are generally cancer-causing but have not said whether N-nitroso fenfluramine is responsible for the liver damage reported.

However, the intermix is the only factor for the use of all to the three productions in question.

The ministry has decided to label the substance as harmful given the gravity of the damage reported, equable though its experiments have not been able to clearly establish cause and event a ministry official said.

The ministry will further analyze the production and once again call onward the Chinese authorities to furnish relevant information, the official said.

More than 120 population in Japan are reported to have be acted uponed health problems such as liver and thyroid gland disorders after taking several Chinese-made slimming proceedss Most of the victims purchased the produces online.

Four persons died and at least 49 were admitted to hospitals because of the produces On July 12, the ministry released the names of Yuzhitang and Xianzhisu to warn the public.

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