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'Miracle'
mineral drink contains bleach?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 03:28:53 PM,
IANS
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London:
Health watchdogs have warned against a 'miracle' health drink that
contains industrial strength bleach.
Hundreds of thousands of bottles of 'Miracle Mineral Solution'
have been sold worldwide after makers claimed it cured illnesses,
including cancer and malaria. But its desperate users have
suffered agonising bouts of nausea and diarrhoea after taking just
a few drops of the fluid.
Shockingly, the health drink contains 28 percent sodium chlorite
solution - the equivalent to industrial strength bleach and six
times the amount in a bottle of Domestos, reports the Daily Mail.
The Food Standards Agency has now warned people who have bought
the drink, asking them to throw it away after Trading Standards
received a deluge of complaints.
A spokesperson said: "If you look at a bottle of Domestos, that's
just 4.5 percent sodium chlorite. The simple fact is not how this
solution is taken but that you just shouldn't be drinking bleach,
full stop.
"We were alerted to the solution after a local authority received
a complaint from somebody who drank it. Sodium chlorite is bleach.
Bleach is not on the approved list of foods and it shouldn't be
sold as a food supplement."
Miracle Mineral Solution is sold over the internet by a man who
gives his name as 'Jim Humble'. A bottle of the liquid costs 21.98
pounds in American dollars and users must mix it with citric acid.
Makers of the liquid claim the solution can cure a range of
illnesses, including Hepatitis, cancer, herpes and TB.
But side effects include severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea,
dehydration and reduced blood pressure. If the solution is taken
in large enough doses, the sodium chlorite could be fatal. It is
the equivalent of drinking industrial strength bleach.
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