Consumers who buy chlorine dioxide solution on Amazon’s platform say they drank liquid despite FDA warnings
The industrial bleach is sold on Amazon through its product pages that consumers buy under the confidence that it is a “miracle cure” for covid-19, despite warnings from the US Food and Drug Administration. But it’s not the first time That drinking fluid can kill.
Chlorine dioxide responses are sold on Amazon’s platform with the CD Kit and NatriChlor logo. Third-party distributors refer to bleach as a “water treatment” and come with legal warnings that the liquid is “not advertised for internal use”.
But Amazon’s consumer comments in the review segment of the pages tell another story: users talk about the amount of bleach drops they absorb and drink the chemical they call MMS to “disinfect,” a word echoed by Donald Trump’s. comments debatable in April that disinfectant injections can cure Covid-19.
One buyer, writing in Spanish, said his circle of relatives began taking bleach shortly after the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States. “A lot of other people still don’t, but I’m sure it helped us a lot. “he said.
Another Amazon visitor wrote: “My mom, who is 77 years old, had Corona, Covid and had body aches, very excessive headaches, Array fatigue. . . Well, she started taking MMS and DON’T BROMA, she almost looks so smart the next day and the next day, she absolutely smart!!
The bleach sold in the Amazon market is used in commercial processes, adding textile production and pulp and paper bleaching. In small doses, it can be used to disinfect water, however, the recommended concentrations through MMS pushers – “miracle mineral solution” – are well above protection levels.
MmS advocates mistakenly claim that it is a panacea for almost all diseases, malaria, HIV/AIDS, cancer and now Covid-19. They also falsely market it as a cure for autism.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the FDA has been seeking to take strong action against fraudulent charlatan remedy traders claiming the virus. Last August, the firm issued a strong fitness warning that MMS bleach products can be life-threatening.
The American Association of Poison Control Centers has recorded more than 16,000 cases of chlorine dioxide poisoning, totaling 2,500 cases of children under the age of 12. Years ago, a hospital resource for liver failure was needed.
Several deaths have been reported from others drinking bleach advertised as a “miracle cure” in South America, and it was added in Argentina, where a five-year-old boy allegedly died in August after receiving chlorine dioxide as a cure for Covid.
In the past, Amazon has got rid of several pro-MMS books from its platform, adding those of the movement’s founder, Jim Humble, who claimed to have discovered that chlorine dioxide cures malaria on a gold mining expedition in the Guyana rainforest in 1996.
In March, Amazon promised to take strong action against product lists that have the merit of fake remedies for Covid-19, but third-party distributors are still looking for tactics to sell potentially harmful products on the site.
Amazon did not respond to Guardian’s questions about selling bleach on its platform.
Fiona O’Leary, an MMS activist based in Ireland, said she was “surprised and sorry that Amazon is still promoting this product. “The FDA is suing bleach producers, but now Amazon is promoting it. How can this happen?
Natrichlor’s CD kit and whitening products sold lately on Amazon are manufactured through KVLAB, which is connected to Keavy’s Corner, an online store in Lake Placid, Florida. In a list of companies, Keavy’s Corner describes itself as specializing in “chlorine dioxide products for consumers. “
In an email sent to The Guardian, Keavy’s Corner owner Steve Pardee said he had begun promoting the product for cleaning kennels and horses, but denied claiming that chlorine dioxide was a cure and that he was under pressure that it had nothing to do with external distributors. promoting their products on Amazon.
“I have never advocated for human consumption. My lists of all those parts have come with links to FDA warnings since 2013,” he said.
Documents show that Pardee was active in the “MMS Forum”, an online network of bleach advocates as a miracle priest, as recently as last year. In 2012, he helped prepare an approved list of MMS providers, and said in a message, “I started making MMS in 2008. “
Pardee told The Guardian that in 2012 he had “offered protection and technical advice” at a forum run by Genesis II, a leading provider of miracle whitening remedies in the United States, led by the Grenon family. Mark Grenon, the head of the family, and his son Joseph were arrested and charged through the FDA last month in Colombia and are awaiting extradition to the United States, while two other children are also jailed with fees in Florida.
Pardee said he broke ties with Genesis in 2013 or 2014 and had nothing to do with them, but joined a discussion at the MMS forum in March 2019 where members converted Miracle Mineral Solution’s call to WPS, an acronym for Water Purification Solution. .
The replacement call would “hide them from wolves and hyenas targeting MMS,” as one user put it.
Pardee contributed to this verbal exchange by saying that “other people who deal with select fitness products want to be very careful with the language they choose. It all comes down to words. If you only sell one chemical and let others know elsewhere, they’ll track you down when they know what they’re for.