"Melanotan" Products Sold For Human Use
A number of products are sold online and in gyms and beauty salons as "melanotan" or "melanotan-1" which purport to have the same chemical make up as afamelanotide, of which the visual effect resulting from usage has been noted in an article by Wired.com as being "eerily similar to results obtained in trials at the University of Arizona or by Clinuvel". The Wired.com article explained that these products were Melanotan II, "a similar (but not identical) compound" and Clinuvel has stated that products sold as "melanotan" are "wholly unrelated to Clinuvel's proprietary afamelanotide". Chemicals sold as "melanotan" are not illegal to import, use or own; however their domestic sales (non-export) and supply for human use outside of government sanctioned clinical trials is illegal within the boundaries of certain jurisdictions, including the UK and Australia.
A 2009 paper on unlicensed "melanotan" products, sold on the internet, has reported that long term use of the products can cause moles to darken and increase in size. Academic researchers at Liverpool John Moores University specialized in performance-enhancing drugs published an editorial in the British Medical Journal suggesting that long term use of 'melanotan I and II', "could damage the immune systems as well as triggering other problems".
Read more about this topic: Afamelanotide, General Population Usage of Melanotan Peptides
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