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Article: 'Yuzhitang' diet food deaths remain a mystery
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- January 23, 2002
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GUANGZHOU: The "Yuzhitang" diet food suspected of causing the
deaths of two girls' in Chongqing and Shanghai is an illegal product,
but no evidence has been confirmed to indicate that the diet food was
made and sold by the Guangzhou Yuzhitang Health Food Company, the
health department of South China's Guangdong Province announced on
Monday.
The statement was made in response to an appeal from Liu Shengquan
from Chongqing Municipality. "My 19-year-old daughter Liu Yanmei died
in August last year after taking the Yuzhitang diet capsules," Liu
claimed, adding the girl had suffered from headaches and stomach-
aches since she began taking the diet product in February.
Sales of the "Yuzhitang" ...