Biscuits boasting of bountiful busts posing problems

[spinbaby]

Yes, this is an actual news item, although not newsy enough to seem appropriate in an actual news forum:

Last week Web page J-cast (Jan. 25) reported that a Japanese confection claiming to enhance breast size is stirring trouble overseas.

The F-cup cookie, whose package shows a curvy female torso in a pink, low-cut dress overlain by the bold text “F-cup,” has generated concern over advertising policies and highlighted differences in national pharmaceutical laws.

The ingredients of the biscuit include margarine, wheat, chocolate flavoring, processed soy powder and Pueraria Mirifica, a herb derived from a root found in northern parts of Thailand and Myanmar whose rejuvenating qualities supposedly enhance the female form. As a result of this medicinal supplement, the F-cup has found a following outside of Japan.

Jiji Press reported (Jan. 20) that in Thailand health officials conducted studies on the cookie after learning that each 13.5-gram wafer included 50 milligrams of the root extract, which is considered a pharmaceutical product in the Southeast Asian nation. Following rabid success of the cookie, whose intake is recommended to be one to two servings a day, Thai health officials became concerned about the impact such a product might have on female hormones.

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2009/02/04/biscuits-boasting-of-bountiful-busts-posing-problems/