Man Found Guilty Of Selling Toxic Bleach As Miracle Cure For Autism
Last week a jury in Washington state convicted a man of conspiracy, smuggling, and defrauding the United States because he marketed a concentrated form of bleach as a miracle cure. When sentenced in September, he faces up to 34 years in prison.
From 2007 to 2011, Louis Daniel Smith operated a business called Project GreenLife that sold a product called "Miracle Mineral Supplement" online. MMS contains a diluted form of sodium chlorite, which Smith instructed customers to mix with citric acid to create chlorine dioxide, and then drink.
Chlorine dioxide is primarily used in industrial applications to bleach wood and treat wastewater, and causes nausea, diarrhea, and dehydration when ingested by humans. The instructions that Smith provided with his MMS product stated that these symptoms were all signs that the MMS was doing its job. Instructions also stated that the product could be safely used on pregnant women, children, and infants. This "miracle cure," he claimed, could treat AIDS, cancer, autism, malaria, hepatitis, lyme disease, asthma, and the common cold.
"This verdict demonstrates that the Department of Justice will prosecute those who sell dangerous chemicals as miracle cures to sick people and their desperate loved ones," Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer said in a statement released by the Justice Department's Civil Division. "Consumers have the right to expect that the medicines that they purchase are safe and effective."
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So glad this conviction came through. The miracle bleach cure is horrifying.
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