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2. Kobayashi red yeast rice scandal - Wikipedia

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   The Kobayashi red yeast rice scandal (Japanese: 小林製薬紅麹サプリメント問題) 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 ...

3. 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.

4. Cholestene - Wikipedia

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   Cholestene has been used as a dietary supplement and is often sold with red yeast rice to promote cholesterol management. However, these products contain a hidden drug ingredient, lovastatin, that may cause serious side effects when combined with other medications, such as muscle injury. [4]

5. Kobayashi factory searched over deaths possibly linked to ...

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   TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese health officials searched a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory on Saturday after the drugmaker reported five deaths possibly linked to dietary supplements using red yeast ...

6. 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. [20] Lovastatin, the first commercial statin, was extracted from a fermentation broth of Aspergillus terreus. [20]

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

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