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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Study: Herbal supplements often contain ED medication ingredients.

Reuters (5/10, Grens) reports that many herbal dietary supplements that purport to enhance men's sexual stamina actually contain the same active ingredients that are found in erectile dysfunction treatments such as Pfizer's Viagra (sildenafil), according to a studypublished online May 1 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Pfizer researcher Neil Campbell and colleagues analyzed 91 samples from 58 herbal supplements they purchased from small retail stores in Atlanta and Baltimore. They found that 81 percent of the supplements, with such names as Rize 2 The Occasion and Stiff 4 Hours, were labeled as containing all natural ingredients but actually contained sildenafil, tadalafil, which is marketed as Cialis, or a similar drug product not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Reuters adds that the FDA has issued 11 consumer warnings this year about herbal supplements containing prescription drug ingredients.

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