Safety alert: Consumers should not buy or use Comecoo and Zhong Cao Yao - Jian Kang Jian Fei which contain undeclared Western ingredients which can cause serious side effects.

The Department of Health urges consumers not to buy or use slimming products Comecoo and Zhong Cao Yao - Jian Kang Jian Fei which contain undeclared Western drug ingredients which can cause serious side effects.

Samples of the products were obtained from an Internet auction website for laboratory tests. The presence of sibutramine and phenolphthalein and two analogues of sibutramine were detected.

The products are not registered pharmaceutical products in Hong Kong.