"Performance enhancing" pills manufactured from fetuses?

South Korean authorities recently seized seventeen thousand pills containing the powdered flesh of fetuses and babies that were smuggled in from China to be used as Viagra-style performance enhancers, according to numerous reports.  Like powdered rhino horn, and various other expensive, and questionable remedies for the perennial male erectile dysfunction problem, men in South Korea have recently turned to powdered dead babies as a possible solution.


Since last August, the state-run Korea Customs service said they have confiscated nearly 20,000 of the dead baby pills from traveler's luggage.  The capsules were made in northeastern China in a stomach-turning process in which dead babies' bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said. Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. China ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.

The pills, which are typically smuggled in by ethnic Koreans living in northern China, aren't just creepy, they contain "super bacteria" that is hazardous to human health, the statement said.

Some among the approximately 35 smugglers who have been caught told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process. Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. 

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