Bodybuilder jailed for supplying toxic fat-burning pills

A 32-year-old gym proprietor has been jailed for 37 months for culpably and recklessly supplying a fare pill which tin beryllium lethal to humans.

Jamie George is believed to person manufactured up to 10,000 pills a period containing dinitrophenol, oregon DNP.

It is understood to beryllium the archetypal condemnation for supplying the substance successful Scotland.

The bodybuilder, from Denny, antecedently admitted the offence astatine Stirling Sheriff Court.

DNP is highly toxic and not intended for quality consumption.

An concern chemical, it is sold illegally successful fare pills arsenic a fat-burning substance.

Users acquisition a metabolism boost, starring to value loss, but taking adjacent a fewer tablets tin beryllium fatal.

UK authorities government to reclassify DNP arsenic a poison volition travel into effect successful October.