Riway has been prosecuted by Singaporean authorities over false well being claims associated to its Purtier complement.
Riway’s run in with Singapore’s Well being Sciences Authority (FDA equal), began in 2016.
Since then the HSA has ‘issued a number of warnings and advisories to Riway on the false and deceptive well being claims made by the corporate and their sellers’.
The HSA’s newest investigation started in 2019, following studies Riway was nonetheless advertising and marketing Purtier as a remedy for most cancers.
The HSA’s investigation led to it discovering
two advertising and marketing supplies printed by Riway for its product distributors and one different materials for its clients.
These supplies contained objectionable claims that the product will stop, alleviate or remedy illnesses or circumstances specified within the First Schedule to the Medicines Act.
These included “remedy sufferers with diabetes”, “anti-tumour” and “anti-cancer results”.
The HSA went on to substantiate
there are not any scientifically verified printed scientific research that show that Purtier Placenta can remedy or enhance most cancers circumstances, stop or deal with diabetes and issues equivalent to poor wound therapeutic and nerve harm.
Riway’s Purtier advertising and marketing claims are based mostly on the inclusion of stem cells within the complement.
As a part of their findings, the HSA debunked these advertising and marketing claims;
The declare that Purtier Placenta accommodates stem cells which can be in a position to assist alleviate or remedy sure illnesses or circumstances is fake.
Purtier Placenta is accessible as a capsule to be consumed orally. There are additionally no particular storage circumstances for the product.
For stem cells to retain their exercise, they have to be saved beneath very chilly temperatures e.g., minus 196 levels centigrade.
Moreover, stem cells which can be taken orally will probably be destroyed by the enzymes within the gastrointestinal tract as they’re protein-based substances.
In mild of ongoing violations of Singapore’s Medicines Act, the HSA took Riway to court docket and gained.
Riway was convicted in Courtroom on 15 July 2021 and fined $3,000 beneath the Medicines Act.
The fined quantity is a little bit of a joke however hopefully if Riway continues to make unlawful medical claims, more durable penalties will probably be out there.
In its prosecution announcement the HSA issued a recent shopper advisory, recommending the general public keep away from buying Purtier.
Keep away from buying and consuming well being dietary supplements with exaggerated claims to remedy, stop or deal with illnesses or medical circumstances, equivalent to “remedy sufferers with diabetes”, “anti-tumour”, “anti-cancer results”, and so on.
Be cautious of sellers who share tales of people who’ve been “cured” of their medical circumstances after taking a well being complement.
Such tales aren’t dependable proof of the effectiveness of a product for medical remedy.
Well being dietary supplements can’t substitute medical remedy.
By taking them instead of prescribed remedy, there’s a threat of delaying or interrupting correct medical remedy, which can worsen your medical situation.
Seek the advice of your physician you probably have any severe or power medical circumstances.
I stand by that recommendation 100%.
You’ll discover a comparable response from me any time somebody reveals up on BehindMLM with a miracle story to push their MLM opp. Or the traditional “I’m not an affiliate however…”
Right here at BehindMLM we first documented Riway’s unlawful medical claims in 2018. In March 2020 we printed a report detailing Purtier being marketed as a COVID-19 remedy.
Riway is run by Singaporean nationwide Lim Boon Hong (proper).
BehindMLM reviewed Riway in October 2018. We discovered questionable merchandise coupled with a compensation that lacked retail focus.
This mixture lends itself to Riway working as a product-based pyramid scheme.
The feedback part of the overview is stuffed with Riway associates making unsubstantiated claims about Purtier.
When pressed, up to now none of them have been in a position to present verifiable proof of their claims.