The tragic death of 21-year-old Eloise Parry from diet pills she purchased online has focused public attention on the dangers of buying counterfeit medicines on the internet. Sadly, we have been here before. In the past two years at least four other deaths in the UK have been attributed to the use of diet pills containing DNP (2,4-dinitrophenol) despite it being deemed ‘extremely dangerous and not fit for human consumption’ by the American Food and Drug Agency as far back as 1938.
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