However, the US Food and Drug
Administration, has found that the product is not natural
at all, and contains sildenafil, the active ingredient in
Viagra.
“This product is dangerous to consumers
because it claims to contain only natural ingredients when
it actually contains a prescription drug ingredient,”
said Deborah M. Autor, director of the Office of Compliance
in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
“Tainted products place consumers at risk of injury
and death, especially those consumers with underlying health
conditions.”
Vigor-25 is not the only such natural sexual
stimulant on the market either, and the spiked pills have
turned up in Thailand, Taiwan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Prescription male sexual stimulants like
Viagra and Cialis normally sell for between $13-20 each.
The spiked pills sell for less than $1 and
since 2001 sales of supplements marketed as natural sexual
enhancers have risen $100 million, to $398 million last
year.
The FDA is currently investigating the reported
death of a 26-year-old man, possibly associated with the
use of Vigor-25.
‘Reportedly.’
Spare
a thought then for the 30-year-old man who, after
using a similar product called Nasutra, for weeks
on end had an erection coupled with a raging migraine
that would not go away! |
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