In Japan, the number of people injured while taking red yeast rice supplements from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical is growing. Already 157 people have been hospitalized.
The supplement is intended for people with kidney disease. About 22 thousand people have applied for advice to the hotline.
It is noted that last week it became known that one of those who took the dietary supplement Beni-koji Cholesterol Help died. Now the number of deaths has reached seven, all people in the age category 70 +.
In the corporation Kobayashi Pharmaceutical conducted a study, and found that the dietary supplement contains substances, unintended in the composition, namely puberulonic acid, a natural metabolite of blue mold. Production has now been suspended and batches of eight red yeast rice supplements have been recalled.
Earlier it was reported that more than 100 Japanese were hospitalized after taking the dietary supplement, two died.