List of illegal sibutramine-containing weight-loss products

We routinely analyse products that we suspect contain active pharmaceutical ingredients which are not declared in the product information. We are also informed about such products through our cooperation with the drug regulatory authorities in other countries.

Through this work, we have been made aware of a number of illegal weight-loss products which all contain the active substance sibutramine appearing neither from the product declaration nor the package. The products, which are often sold on the internet, can be dangerous to health, and we therefore warn consumers against using them. Sibutramine has previously been authorised for the treatment of obesity, but it also causes a number of serious side effects, and all authorised sibutramine-containing medicines were taken off the market in 2010.

We do not know of all illegal weight-loss products on the market, and it is likely that other illegal and hazardous weight-loss products are in circulation; any such products do not appear on the below list of illegal weight-loss products.

You can see an image of most of the products on the list. Click the image for large view (the quality of the images may vary).