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2. Kobayashi Pharma ordered to recall red yeast rice pills after ...

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   Japanese authorities on Wednesday ordered drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical to recall three dietary supplement products containing red yeast rice, or beni koji, after they were linked to two deaths.

3. Red yeast rice - Wikipedia

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   Red yeast rice or red rice koji is a bright reddish purple fermented rice, which acquires its color from being cultivated with the mold Monascus purpureus. Red yeast rice is what is referred to as a kōji in Japanese , meaning "grain or bean overgrown with a mold culture", a food preparation tradition going back to ca. 300 BC.

4. Medicinal uses of fungi - Wikipedia

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   The red yeast rice fungus, Monascus purpureus, can synthesize three statins. Statins are an important class of cholesterol-lowering drugs; the first generation of statins were derived from fungi. [10] Lovastatin, the first commercial statin, was extracted from a fermentation broth of Aspergillus terreus. [10]

5. Kobayashi red yeast rice scandal - Wikipedia

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   The Kobayashi red yeast rice scandal (Japanese: 紅麹サプリ事件) is an ongoing widespread supplement contamination that was first noted on 22 March 2024, resulting in numerous health problems to people taking the supplements in Japan and Taiwan. Up to 80 people died after taking the supplements, with at least 500 more hospitalized.

6. Does red rice yeast lower cholesterol as effectively as a ...

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7. Statin-associated autoimmune myopathy - Wikipedia

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   However, there are cases of SAAM in patients who have not taken statin medication, and this can be explained by the exposure to natural sources of statin such as red yeast rice, which is statin rich. This theory is supported by the higher prevalence of statin-naive SAAM patients in Asian cohorts, who have statin-rich diets.