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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

Tag: benikoji

  • Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 11:14 UTC

    Over-the-counter dietary supplement kills at least 5 in Japan

    In 2023, some 18.5 tons of benikoji products were manufactured by Kobayashi

    At a time when the spread of dengue fever in South America -particularly in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay- led the region to seek the Japanese-developed Qdenga vaccine from the Takeda laboratories to tackle the disease, the case of at least five dead and over 100 hospitalized in the Asian insular nation after taking cholesterol-lowering red yeast rice dietary supplements did not go unnoticed.