U.S. warns about impotence product sold on web

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Consumers should not take Actra-Rx, a product advertised as a natural impotence treatment that actually contains the ingredient in Pfizer Inc.’s prescription pill Viagra, U.S. regulators warned on Tuesday.

Tests of Actra-Rx found prescription-strength levels of sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, the Food and Drug Administration said. Actra-Rx is imported into the United States from China under the name Yilishen and then sold via the Web under the name Actra-Rx, the FDA said.

Sildenafil can cause a dangerous lowering of blood pressure if it is taken with certain prescription drugs called nitrates. Patients with diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High cholesterol or heart disease usually take nitrates.

“Consumers who are seeking treatment for erectile dysfunction should not take Actra-Rx or Yilishen as either can be dangerous to their health and even life-threatening,” the FDA said in a statement.

The FDA advised patients experiencing erectile dysfunction to contact a physician to discuss treatment options.

The agency also told inspectors to detain any shipments of Actra-Rx or Yilishen that are spotted at U.S. border facilities.

The FDA tested Actra-Rx after the Journal of the American Medical Association published a letter in February from a scientist who said his analysis had detected sildenafil in samples of the product.

Officials at Body Basics Inc., a Los Angeles company that sells Actra-Rx via the Internet, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

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