Diet food and "dried thyroid" (thyroid hormone)

　In July 2002, many health hazards, including deaths, continued to occur in Chinese diet health foods, and the media reported extensively. However, diet foods that cause health damage have been on the market since then, and in some cases of serious health damage, thyroid end (thyroid hormone) has been added.
　In medicine, it is called "dry thyroid" (thyroid hormone), which removes fat from the thyroid gland of cattle, pigs, and sheep, and is powdered, and is used to treat thyroid dysfunction. Dry thyroid gland has long been abused as a thinner since around 1965. Excessive thyroid hormones can cause symptoms similar to hyperthyroidism such as hyperpalpitations and sweating, as well as side effects such as liver dysfunction, menstruation, and psychiatric abnormalities.

　The dry thyroid gland test involves extracting thyroid hormones from diet foods and analyzing thyroid hormones, tyroxin and 3,5,3'-triyodothyronin using a liquid chromathograph-mass spectrometer (LC-MS). In addition, under a microscope, the presence or absence of alveoli cells, which are specifically found in the thyroid gland (Photos 2 and 3). This confirmation is done by histological testing to embed specimens, establish tissues in preparatt, and dye them. In addition, local dry thyroid was used for positive control.

　Many diet foods that cause such health hazards can be easily purchased on the Internet. In addition, among people interested in dieting, there have been cases where information on actual effects of various types of diet health foods is exchanged on Internet bulletin boards, etc., and despite the health hazard, the diet effect seems to be pursued. As a recent violation trend, in addition to the thyroid end, drugs such as appetite suppression agents, laxatives, diuretic agents, etc. are added in foods to make them more effective, and several types are added instead of single items. It is often seen. Depending on the sales method, these may violate the Pharmaceuticals and Machinery Law as unapproved and unlicensed drugs.