The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has raised a caveat to be wary of the counterfeit copies of the widely bought non-prescription weight loss drug Alli that is being sold online and could have detrimental outcome on weight-watchers. The discovery of these fake copies is being marketed on online auctioning websites like eBay. They are being solely vended in sixty milligrams, 120-count refill sachets and bear considerable similarity to the real Alli. GlaxoSmithKline, in-charge of making the FDA-accepted version of the drug mentioned that the bogus Alli has a constituent known as Sibutramine which must not be consumed without the doctor’s supervision and might have potentially grave counter-reactions with other types of prescription medicines. However, these fake drugs do not have orlistat – the key constituent present in GSK’s product, Alli and Xenical being manufactured by Roche. On the contrary, fake Alli has sibutramine as its components. Sibutramine is the key constituent  [...]