Florida Oclo exploits fears around new strains of viruses promoting chlorine dioxide, despite FDA warnings opposing fraudulent ‘cures’
Last updated: game April 15, 2021 12. 11 BST
Street vendors of industrial bleach who urge Americans to drink the liquid as a “miracle cure” for cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases have begun to promote the product illegally as a remedy for the newer variants of Covid-19.
Chlorine dioxide, a tough bleach used in textile and paper manufacturing, is ready and sold in an improvised lab in Miami, Florida. Oclo Nanotechnology Science is committed to fears of the new strain of coronavirus discovered in the UK. which is now spreading widely in the US.
The British variant, B117, is thought to be more communicable and fatal than the initial form of the virus.
The Miami-based company is B117 to increase sales of its whitening products, which according to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are potentially harmful and life-threatening. its chlorine dioxide product is presented as an “antiviral” treatment.
The symbol overlaps the words: “B117 . . . variant of coronavirus, the maximum contagious and harmful in the United States. Save chlorine dioxide and its wonderful healing potential against pathogens. “
The emergence of a new marketing boost from Miami through street vendors of the “cure” for bleach, known as the “miracle mineral solution” or MMS, points to the FDA’s fierce struggle to control potentially fatal trade. federal firm has taken strong action against fraudulent products claiming to treat or cure Covid-19.
He also used his strength to fight chlorine dioxide traffickers. Last August, the FDA arrested Mark Grenon and his four children, who were among the largest “miracle” bleach street vendors in the United States.
Members of Grenon’s family circle claimed to be “bishops” of florida-based “church” Genesis II, which sold bleach on the grounds that it was a “sacrement. “They remain imprisoned in Miami and Colombia awaiting extradition to the United States.
After Genesis II, the FDA now faces outcroppings from new MMS distributors. Oclo runs through a former Cuban who lives in Hallandale Beach, north of Miami.
Ricardo García describes himself as a “research and progression scientist” trained in chemistry at the University of Havana, and identifies himself as a true real estate agent. Most of its customers in the United States are Latin American.
It is also known to offer the shipment of bleach in the form of an enema in Europe for autistic children, at a cost of $680 consistent with the liter plus shipping costs.
In text messages between Garcia and an autism advocate founded in Europe, he said he distributed the jars basically in “local spaces in the United States. “He added: “We have been censored several times on social media, but we still produce to save. lives. “
Despite Garcia’s protests, his main direction in the industry remains through social media and promotes his poisonous products on Facebook, Amazon and eBay.
Obviously, it’s a success in promoting Amazon. Its “immune booster opposed to pathogens”, at a cost of $49. 99, is a bestseller ranked 105 in the category of “nutrition and hydration products for sport”.
The Guardian asked Garcia why he was illegally promoting bleach as a remedy for Covid’s B117 strain and other diseases. He said, “In fact, we mourn the loss of his beloved. Thank you for publishing the latest clinical advances with chlorine dioxide. “In the remedy of Covid-19. We have a great interest in saving lives, you too, don’t we?”
The Guardian also contacted the three social media giants to ask them why they were harboring a fraudulent and fatal “cure” on their platforms. Within hours, eBay responded by blocking Oclo’s page.
An eBay spokesperson said: “Our first priority is to ensure the protection of our workers and consumers around the world. We take vital steps to temporarily block or remove from our market pieces that make false fitness claims, adding lists that sell chlorine dioxide instead of COVID-19. “
Amazon more ambivalent. It stated that external distributors were “independent companies” that had to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
“Those who violate our policies are subject to action, adding erasure of their account,” Amazon said. However, he left Oclo’s page at the top.
Facebook replied.
Fiona O’Leary, an anti-pseudoscience activist, said she was involved with Garcia because, unlike other street vendors, he was an exercise scientist. “I’m very concerned because he’s a professional and I never noticed a scientist doing anything. “this product before. He has more wisdom about chemicals and we will accept more as true with him”.
Garcia claims to stick to the protocols of Andreas Kalcker, one of the main figures of the “cure” movement with bleach. Kalcker, a German citizen living in Switzerland, is the author of an influential book, Forbidden Health.
He is reportedly in an investigation into criminals in Argentina following the death of a five-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man who drank chlorine dioxide.
On his website, Garcia claims that his product treats autism, a non-unusual and abusive bleach app. He quotes a relative who says his delight with chlorine dioxide was “really miraculous. “Our five-year-old autistic son could do it in an ordinary way. »
Garcia also quotes a New York resident who says his grandfather nearly died of Covid but that he recovered from drinking bleach.
Its online page encourages consumers to buy chlorine dioxide and give it to their dogs, as well as to market the liquid as a remedy for vaginal infections in women. “Vaginal washing with a chlorine dioxide solution allows the remedy of certain vaginal and sexually transmitted infections. diseases,” he says.