FOREIGN DESK
| July 31,
2002, Wednesday Japan Tries to Halt Use of Tainted Herbal Diet Pills From
China
By KEN BELSON (NYT)
571 words
Late Edition -
Final, Section A, Page 5, Column 1
ABSTRACT
- Japanese health
officials are scrambling to halt proliferation of tainted herbal
weight-loss supplements from China that have killed three people and
caused liver and thyroid ailments in hundreds; many consumers bought
drugs on Internet or brought them back from China, making task more
difficult; Min Chikara Sakaguchi says he steps up efforts to
pinpoint source of growing list of drugs, which contain banned
appetite suppressant N-nitroso fenfluramine (M)
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