Posts Tagged ‘safety’
The FDA still has not approved HCG injections for use as a weight loss aid even thought it works so well. The FDA has not found enough evidence during its research to indicate that Hcg is effective as a weight loss aid, although thousands of people have used HCG and have successfully lost large amounts of weight.
So you may feel a little insecure when you look at Mom or Dad and they’re suddenly not able to smile anymore, or Aunt Millie is drooping at the eyelids from a botched botulinum-toxin job. But scholars at the Monterey Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies see a security threat of a different type. Writing in the June issue of Scientific American, they argue that the proliferation of counterfeit Botox worldwide — fueled by consumer demand — has made the toxin, which is deadly in sufficient quantities, far more easily available for would-be bioterrorists than it was in the past.

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