Women who sold banned slimming tablets avoid jail
Yesterday, Sharon Edwards, aged 33, and Tara McEvoy, aged 40, from Donomore Avenue, Tallaght, Dublin, were each fined €500 after they pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to breaking medicinal products regulations.
Judge John O’Neill heard they imported what they believed were “100% herbal” remedies called Lida and Botanical Soft Gel Capsules. The products were bought over the internet and turned out to contain a controversial drug called Sibutramine which has been withdrawn from markets across the world due to health risk fears.
