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Banned Erectile Enhancement Drugs And FDA Compliance

25th December, 2009 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Once again the risks of sexual enhancement products bought over the internet has been voiced by the US Food and Drug Administration after an investigation. In 2004 the FDA released a list of some of the products sold on the internet which had the ability to cause serious health problems because of their ingredients. They were not in line with FDA compliance and were breaking federal law because they withheld ingredient information.

The following are just a few of the ‘supplements’ that were found to be in nreach of FDA compliance; Super Shangai, Strong Testis, Shangai Ultra, Shangai Ultra X, Lady Shangai, Shangai Regular, also marketed as Shangai Chaojimengnan, Hero, Naturalë.

You can see the full list of illegal products on the FDA’s website. They are promoted as a pill to enhance sexual performance or treat erectile dysfunction. If you take prescription drugs or use some herbal remedies then you are risking your health by taking these illegal drugs.

on the internet and in some retail outlets you can buy a product call Stiff Nights which the FDA has recently warned consumers against. It is sold as a dietary supplement although there are ingredients in the pills that consumers are not told about. The FDAs compliance regulations over the marketing of drugs is being breached by the company behind Stiff Night. Withholding ingredient information can put consumers at serious health risk because the active ingredients in many sexual enhancement drugs can react with prescription medicines.

Men are at the highest risk if they are taking medication for conditions including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol at the same time as taking Stiff Nights and other performance enhancing drugs. This is because the active ingredient in stiff nights is sulfoaildenafil, the same chemical that is in the legal drug Viagra. When sulfoaildenafil and nitrate drugs are taken together they can seriously lower blood pressure. Nitrates are commonly found in the medicines used to treat the above conditions and a side effect of them can be erectile dysfunction.

Because the product is advertised as ‘all natural’, many unsuspecting men are taking the drug without knowing that it could seriously damage their health. The FDA was tipped off about Stiff Nights through a customer complaint. The FDA decided to release a consumer warning after it had conducted an investigation.