{"id":62874,"date":"2024-03-27T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/japan-dietary-supplement-recall-beni-koji-red-yeast-rice-cholesterol-kobayashi-pharmaceutical-investigation-kidney-disease"},"modified":"2024-03-27T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:35:19","slug":"japan-dietary-supplement-recalled-amid-investigation-into-two-deaths-and-100-hospitalisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62874","title":{"rendered":"Japan dietary supplement recalled amid investigation into two deaths and 100 hospitalisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesterol-lowering supplements containing \u2018beni koji\u2019 recalled by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical over possible link to kidney disease<\/p>\n<p>A nationwide recall of a dietary supplement that lowers cholesterol has been issued in Japan amid concerns it could be linked to two deaths and more than 100 hospitalisations, according to news agency Kyodo.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, which sells over-the-counter drugs and dietary supplements, has issued a national recall of the product, and authorities are conducting emergency checks on thousands of products that advertise their health benefits, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2024\/03\/7f3163f126fd-1-dies-after-consuming-japan-drugmakers-health-supplements.html\">Kyodo reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/japan-dietary-supplement-recall-beni-koji-red-yeast-rice-cholesterol-kobayashi-pharmaceutical-investigation-kidney-disease\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesterol-lowering supplements containing \u2018beni koji\u2019 recalled by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical over possible link to kidney diseaseA nationwide recall of a dietary supplement that lowers cholesterol has been issued in Japan amid concerns it could be link&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1209,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food-safety","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62874\/revisions\/62882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}