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Speed-laced pills resurface
    #7415906 - 09/16/07 08:40 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/238334.html

Banned by U.S. regulators last year, amphetamine-laced Brazilian diet pills have reappeared in South Florida under a new name, and once again they may be endangering people's jobs -- and their health.

The name is PEB-One, with a sister product PEB-Two. Rita Chappelle of the Food and Drug Administration says the products have been been banned since mid-2006. Still, they were being sold on eBay through at least January 2007.

Terry Hall, a toxicologist with the federally certified Toxicology Testing Service in Miami, reports that a nurse recently came to him after she was stunned to learn she had tested positive for amphetamines during a pre-employment test at Baptist Hospital.

The only possible source she could think of was some supposedly natural-ingredient diet pills that she had found via eBay, she told Hall. They came in a box marked PEB-One. Hall says he saw the box, but doesn't recall any details about it.

Hall tested a tablet. He says PEB-One contained a tranquilizer and a particular molecule, cyanoethyl-amphetamine, that he found in the Emagrece Sim tablets that the Food and Drug Administration banned in January 2006 because the ingredients are illegal without a prescription.

''It's a different scam,'' says Hall, ``but it has the same ingredients.''

''We are not aware of any recent shipments of these products into the U.S.,'' Chappelle of the FDA said in an e-mail. ``Because the products are on import alert, none should be coming into the U.S. unless they are being misdeclared or smuggled.''

The manufacturer of PEB-One could not be immediately located for comment. In the case of Emagrece Sim, the Brazilian manufacturer maintained its pills were legitimate, but counterfeiters had made pills with illegal ingredients.

Kim Rubey, a spokeswoman for eBay, said the website prohibited sales of PEB-One in January after it learned the FDA had put out a consumer warning on PEB-One.

One place that the pills still appear for sale is at Bodyfarma.com, a Portuguese language website that gives the price in Brazilian reais. A 30-day supply costs the equivalent of about $59. The site offers no way to call or e-mail.

The nurse who went to Hall called The Miami Herald several weeks ago about her problem, but when a reporter tried three times to contact her this week, she didn't respond.

Hall says the nurse, who already has a job at another local hospital, has hired an attorney because Baptist reported the results of her drug test to state regulators, who could demand she enter a drug-treatment program or suspend her license.

By some accounts, the Brazilian pills have produced sensational results. Some South Florida users reported losing up to 20 pounds in three weeks with Emagrece Sim without changing their diets or exercising.

Emagrece Sim offered two types of pills: A yellow one, to take in the morning, was found to contain amphetamines, according to Hall and other testers; and an orange pill, to be taken at night, contained a tranquilizer that was supposed to remove the jitters associated with amphetamines and allow patients to sleep.

The Drug Enforcement Administration lists amphetamines as controlled substances because they can be addictive. Doctors warn that this drug, often referred to as ''speed,'' can elevate blood pressure, which could be dangerous for people with heart problems.

Hall says that the blue-and-white PEB-One pills combined both a tranquilizer and amphetamine in a single tablet. ''I'm not sure how that would work,'' he says.

Bodyfarma.com says the pills allow patients to ``lose weight rapidly. . . diminish and control appetite. . . control anxiety. . . combat fatigue. . . augment energy levels.''

With Emagrece Sim, several persons complained their job applications had been rejected because they had tested positive for amphetamines. A U.S. Customs employee was suspended for seven months before Hall explained to her supervisors about the hidden ingredients in the allegedly ''all-natural'' pills.

Baptist spokeswoman Jo Baxter says the employee health office ''continues to see the Brazilian diet drug'' show up on screening tests ''from time to time,'' but doesn't keep track of how often.


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