Under the guise of an analog of "Ozempika" on the Internet are sold pacifier supplements

Dietary supplements that are sold for dozens of times their cost price under the guise of Ozempic analogs are empty and cannot lead to the fat-burning effect stated in the description.

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This is the result of the expertise conducted by the Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety with regard to the Russian drugs Turbo Ozempic and Azempic+.

The research was commissioned by the experts of the project "Don't take risks. Check!" project of the international association "Anti-Counterfeiting".

Dietary supplements are sold under the guise of "food additive" and "food concentrate", this loophole helps to circumvent the law on mandatory registration and "Honest Mark" labeling. Manufacturers may face criminal liability for this, the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee told Izvestia.

"The names of Turbo Ozempic and Azempic+ products have no evidentiary basis and may mislead consumers as to their properties, indicating supposed efficacy due to similarity to the extent of confusion with the name of the drug Ozempic," the conclusion reads.

Experts explain that "Ozempik" is a drug for diabetes therapy, its active ingredient is "semaglutide". While in the mentioned dietary supplements there is no semaglutide.

Both products do not meet the stated properties, mislead the consumer, and therefore, by law, are subject to withdrawal from circulation, the study says. "Additives, the names of which are homonymous or similar to the extent of confusion with the names of medicines, may be withdrawn from circulation and banned from sale," the protocol says.

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