Diet food and dry thyroid gland (thyroid hormone)

　In July 2002, many health hazards, including deaths, continued to occur in Chinese diet health foods for diet foods made in China, and the mass media reported. However, diet foods that cause health hazards have been circulated since then, and some cases of serious health hazards have added thyroid gland (thyroid hormone).
　In pharmaceuticals, it is called the "dry thyroid hormone" (thyroid hormone), in which fat is removed from the thyroid of cattle, pigs and sheep, dried, and powdered, and is used to treat thyroid dysfunction. Dry thyroid has long been abused as a thin medicine since around 1965. Excessive thyroid hormone can cause symptoms similar to hyperthyroidism, such as palpitations and sweating, and side effects such as liver dysfunction, menstruation, and mental disorders.

　A dry thyroid examination method involves extracting thyroid hormone from diet foods and analyzing the thyroid hormone thyroxin and 3,5,3'-triyodothtyronnin, using a liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometer (LC-MS). In addition, the presence or absence of follicle cells that are specifically found in the thyroid gland (Photos 2 and 3). This confirmation is done by a histological test in which the sample is embedded, fixing the tissue in the preparatote, and stains it. For the positive control, we used a local dry thyroid gland.

　Many diet foods that cause such health hazards can be easily purchased on the Internet. In addition, there are cases where people who are interested in diet exchange information on the actual effects of various types of diet health foods on Internet bulletin boards, etc., and despite health hazards, the diet effect is It seems to be pursuing. As a recent violation trend, in addition to thyroid powder, pharmaceuticals such as appetite suppressors, laxatives, diuretic agents, etc. are added in foods to make them more effective. It is often seen. Depending on the sales method, these may violate the Pharmaceutical Machinery Act as unapproved and unlicensed drugs.