METHUSELAH ARCHIVE CLAIMS
Claim · 2013 · DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol) as a weight-loss drug

DNP is a legitimate bodybuilding and slimming 'fat burner' supplement rather than a banned industrial chemical.

testimonialrefuted intervention DNP (2,4-Dinitrophenol) as a weight-loss drug

DNP is not licensed as a food, supplement, or medicine in the two jurisdictions the attached records document — the United Kingdom and the United States; the UK Food Standards Agency’s 2003 warning describes it as “not suitable for human consumption” at any level, and the U.S. FDA’s 1938 declaration (“extremely dangerous and not fit for human consumption”) ended its medicinal use, and the ATSDR’s 2019 federal profile recorded that DNP’s medicinal use had been discontinued and that it was ‘still marketed for weight loss by unregulated internet sources.’ Framing it as a fitness-supplement-store product, as Rebelo did by falsely presenting his operation as affiliated with a legitimate retailer and disguising shipments under names like “Optimum Gold,” misrepresents an unlicensed industrial chemical as a regulated consumer good.

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Sources

  1. Food Standards Agency issues urgent advice on consumption of 'fat burner' capsules containing DNP — Food Standards Agency (UK), Food Standards Agency issues urgent advice on consumption of fat burner capsules containing DNP, press release, June 2003, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20101210124807/http://www.food.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/2003/jun/fatburnpress
  2. DNP: the dangerous diet pill pharmacists should know about — Megan Tatum, DNP: the dangerous diet pill pharmacists should know about, The Pharmaceutical Journal (Royal Pharmaceutical Society), 13 June 2019, https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feature/dnp-the-dangerous-diet-pill-pharmacists-should-know-about
  3. Toxicological Profile for Dinitrophenols — Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Toxicological Profile for Dinitrophenols, 2019, https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp64.pdf (see also NCBI Bookshelf edition, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK590059/)
  4. R v Bernard Rebelo: Sentencing Remarks of the Hon. Mrs Justice Whipple DBE — Whipple J, R v Bernard Rebelo, sentencing remarks, Central Criminal Court, 11 March 2020, published by the Judiciary of England and Wales, https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/r-v-rebelo-sentencing-remarks.pdf