By Helen Johnson, Sam Everett and Sophie Braybrook On Wednesday we uncovered a huge black market of potentially deadly, fake and illegal weight loss jabs being sold on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. And we can now reveal that the products are also being promoted and sold by third parties on another social media platform – YouTube. The most popular knock-off on the black market is one that’s not even available yet – retatrutide. The real retatrutide is being made by Eli Lilly – a pharmaceutical giant in the US – but its product hasn’t yet passed clinical trials and the company has not released it for sale. Early trials show the injection could be twice as potent as some of the big...
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