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The dangerous drug, which was marketed as being all ‘natural’, has been pulled from shelves in Spain
The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has been forced to recall from sale a drug called ‘Hard Man’, a medication designed to restore impaired erectile function after it came to light that the product contains ‘tadalafil’, a PDE-5 inhibitor, which does not appear on its list of ingredients.
Despite marketing itself as an all-natural food supplement, the inhibitors discovered in the medication can cause serious medical problems for people suffering from myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, blood pressure problems and liver failure. In addition, tadalafil is known to have numerous interactions with other drugs which can cause a range of adverse reactions.
In an official statement, AEMPS said that the product contains enough of the inhibitor to be legally considered a drug and thus its natural label gives “misleading safety information”.
Coinciding with an operation launched by Interpol called Pangea XVI which aims to crack down on the illegal sale of medicines on the internet, AEMPS was made aware of a very similar product called Rhodicomp, once again masquerading as a nutritional supplement but found to contain both tadalafil and sildenafil, active ingredients in the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, whose use requires medical supervision due to the long list of possible side-effects.
Today, Rhodicomp can be purchased on Amazon for as little as 34 euros, although it has previously been marketed under a number of different names including Vitalcap, Vitalplans and Vicanplus. According to AEMPS, the continuous rebranding is simply a ploy by the so-called herbal Viagra distributors to avoid persecution by authorities.
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