Safi is an Ayurvedic medicine which claims to be a blood-purifier. It is produced by Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) in Ghaziabad India, as well as in Pakistan and in Bangladesh. According to the package, it "corrects the digestive system, relieves constipation, prevents and cures boils, pimples, and skin eruptions."
In August 2005 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency of the United Kingdom Department of Health reported that samples of Safi contained high levels of feces.[1] The next month Health Canada issued a warning that Safi was "found to contain arsenic levels in excess of 40 times the maximum allowable concentration for drugs"[2] and people who had used the product were told to contact their physician.[3] The product had never been authorized for sale in Canada, but authorities suspect it may have been sold there, and had also been available for sale in USA.[3] The product has subsequently been not allowed to enter Canada and Australia.[4]
References
edit- ^ Arsenic and mercury in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicines Archived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- ^ Some Ayurvedic medicinal products reported to contain high levels of heavy metals Archived 2008-01-07 at the Wayback Machine Health Canada
- ^ a b "Heavy metal warning for Ayurvedic medicinal products - Health - CBC News". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ "Metal content in found in Ayurvedic drugs". IBN Live. Jan 5, 2006. Archived from the original on 6 June 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
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