Weight-loss products marketed under the Lyn brand were seized during police raids on a house in Chon Buri and a factory in Pathum Thani last month. (Bangkok Post file photo)Autopsies have confirmed that two people who died after taking Lyn brand weight-loss products had suffered severe side effects from sibutramine, a banned appetite suppressant, police say. Doctors detected abnormalities in the heart, lung and spleen in both cases and concluded that the victims died from sibutramine poisoning that caused acute heart failure, Pol Gen Wirachai said at a news briefing on Saturday. Sibutramine, an appetite suppressant banned since 2010 in Thailand and many other countries, was found in the blood of the two victims. Autopsy results are still pending on the bodies of two other people who died after taking weight-loss products containing sibutramine.

Source: Bangkok Post May 19, 2018 10:18 UTC