{"id":1660,"date":"2014-05-23T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2014-05-24T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T21:49:03","slug":"new-method-to-detect-bogus-male-enhancement-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-method-to-detect-bogus-male-enhancement-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"New method to detect bogus \u2018male enhancement\u2019 drugs<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1661\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Counterfeit-ED-drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1661\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1661\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Counterfeit-ED-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"A new chemical testing method can help distinguish between the compounds present in both real and bogus \u2018male enhancement\u2019 drugs (Photo credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, via Flickr)\" width=\"250\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Counterfeit-ED-drugs.jpg 250w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Counterfeit-ED-drugs-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new chemical testing method can help distinguish between the compounds present in both real and bogus \u2018male enhancement\u2019 drugs (Photo credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cbpphotos\/8405579363\" target=\"_blank\">via Flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new technique can successfully distinguish between 82 different compounds used in both real and bogus \u2018male enhancement\u2019 pills in less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Compounds &#8211; both natural and synthetic &#8211; that are chemically similar to the active ingredients in erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra and Cialis are often mixed into pills and sold as \u2018natural male enhancement\u2019. Yet unlike the real deal, many of these compounds have not been tested for efficacy or safety, and could cause dangerous side effects.<\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art technique will help regulators determine exactly what is in these bogus pills and shut down the manufacturers who pose a risk to public health.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0021967314005305\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Chromatography A\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 23, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimie.umontreal.ca\/en\/people\/professors\/Waldron_Karen-C\/\">Karen Waldron<\/a>, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chimie.umontreal.ca\/en\/people\/support-staff\/Furtos_Alexandra\/\">Alexandra Furtos<\/a>, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique can successfully distinguish between 82 different compounds used in both real and bogus \u2018male enhancement\u2019 pills in less than 10 minutes. Compounds &#8211; both natural and synthetic &#8211; that are chemically similar to the active ingredients in erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra and Cialis are often mixed into pills and sold as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[32,1565,1567,1566,1568],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-chemistry","tag-chromatography","tag-counterfeit-drugs","tag-drug-testing","tag-ed-drugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Counterfeit-ED-drugs1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-qM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}