CBP and FDA seize Apetamin worth USD 688,000
US Customs and Border Protection officers and US Food and Drug Administration consumer safety officers seized over 25,000 bottles of Apetamin, an appetite-stimulating and potentially harmful weight-gain supplement popularised on social media, on 28 April 2023, after it arrived from Ghana. The prohibited Apetamin arrived in a shipment of over 25,000 units of 200 ml bottles.
Apetamin, which may also be found in pill form, is largely marketed on social media to consumers searching for quick weight gains to help achieve a certain “slim thick” physique.
However, the FDA warns consumers that Apetamin has not been reviewed for safety and effectiveness, and that it reportedly poses potentially dangerous side effects, such as hallucinations, convulsions, decreased heart rates, coma, and death. (cj)