#phenethylamine — Public Fediverse posts

The Netherlands has just made the entire #phenethylamine group and all its derivatives including cathinones a scheduled narcotic.

This essential neurotransmitter group is always present in the human body, and many derivations of the group are present in plants.

Effectively this makes chocolate and red wine illegal as it contains tyramine.

I don't think our government has overseen how obscenely stupid this ban is yet.

Many of these compounds are pharma precursors...

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/drugs/verbod-op-designerdrugs

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority issues an alert on three products that contain banned substances. The products are sold for 'fitness', 'burning fats' or 'for stopping cancer'.

#Singapore #Health #FoodProducts #Sibutramine #Phenethylamine

https://www.hsa.gov.sg/announcements/press-release/hsa-alert-threeproductssoldonline