Presence of synthetic pharmaceuticals as adulterants in slimming phytotherapeutic formulations and their analytical determination.
Obesity that is associated with a high consumption of slimming substances is considered a public health problem around the world. In this context, the increasing consumption of phytotherapeutic formulations as alternative obesity treatments has revealed the presence of synthetic pharmaceuticals as adulterants. The illegally added adulterants are frequently anorexic, anxiolytic, and antidepressant pharmaceuticals. This review aims to describe the analytical methodologies utilized for the determination of adulterants in slimming phytotherapeutic formulations. Furthermore, this review describes some important adulteration cases, which occurred mainly in Europe, Asia, Brazil, and the USA.
de Carvalho
Leandro M
LM
Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Caixa Postal 5051, CEP 97110-970, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. lemacarvalho@gmail.com
Martini
Mariele
M
Moreira
Ana Paula L
AP
de Lima
Ana Paula S
AP
Correia
Daniele
D
Falcão
Tatiana
T
Garcia
Solange C
SC
de Bairros
André V
AV
do Nascimento
Paulo C
PC
Bohrer
Denise
D