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Volume 3, Issue 1 (Suppl) Toxicol Open Access
ISSN: 2476-2067 TYOA, an open access journal Toxicology Congress 2017
April 13-15, 2017
April 13-15, 2017 Dubai, UAE
8th World Congress on
Toxicology and Pharmacology
Clinical case study:Toxicity of dietary supplement used forweight reduction contaminatedwith adulterants
Sahar Y Issa1,2 Maha K Al-Mazroua1, Essam M Hafez1,3, Mohammed G Saad4, Asmaa S El-Banna1 and Heba A Hussain1
1Dammam Poison Control Center, KSA
2Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
3Minia University, Egypt
4King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Nowadays, dietary supplements’ consumption, especially those of plant
origin, has been gaining more popularity among consumers owing to
misbelieve that they are natural products posing no risks to human health.
In many regions of the world including the European Union and the United
States, dietary supplements are legally considered as special categories of food,
thus are not popularly being submitted to any safety assessment prior to their
commercialization. Among the safety issues, comes adulteration by the illegal
addition of pharmaceutical substances or their analogues, since unscrupulous
producers can falsify these products to provide for quick effects and to increase
their profits and sales.This case study is about one product used locally as a dietary
supplement, and was marketed for weight loss, muscle building, lead to several
health complications in one user, who presented with renal impairment and also
describes about several conventional and advanced analytical techniques used
to detect and identify amphetamine-like adulterants in the dietary supplement.
Biography
Sahar Y Issa has completed her Doctorate degree in Clinical Toxicology & Forensic Medicine in 2008, from Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt and
is a Lecturer of Clinical Toxicology & Forensic Medicine in the same university. She is currently a Consultant Toxicologist, and the Medical Director, supervising
Emergency Toxicology, Molecular Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring units in Dammam Poison Control Center, MOH - Saudi Arabia. She has published
more than 25 papers in reputed journals and serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute.
Sahar Y Issa et al., Toxicol Open Access 2017, 3:1 (Suppl)
Figure 1: Amphetamine gas chromatography
mass spectrometer GC-MS–QP 2010,
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