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...There’s no factory here,” explains Chung Lan-Seng, the building manager. “This is an office. We process orders here...
Although at first Chung, a middle-aged woman originally from Taiwan, refuses to say where the factories are located, she eventually reveals that there are several company factories located in both Shandong and Zhejiang provinces...
...Chung refuses to provide more specific information about the factory names or locations and also declines to comment on working conditions in the factories...
...University of Hong Kong. "There's no safety data, and their efficacy is not based on any evidence." Product labels contain no warnings, few guidelines for use, and potentially dangerous ingredients are often not listed. "Anyone who takes these pills is basically acting as a trial subject," says Dr. Chung Mau Lo of the University of Hong Kong Medical Center, who works in its liver transplant clinic...
...without being aware of it," says Dr. Lee. "They lose water and with it, potassium and other vital body-regulating electrolytes." Reduced potassium can cause an irregular heartbeat, even coma. "What can be O.K. for a month can cause serious damage over the long term," says Professor Leung Ping-chung, chairman of the Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He performed a recent study of 15 diet pills available in Hong Kong and found the packaging of only one mentioned potential long-term side effects...