Combined with certain atmospheric conditions, the drug can bring lethal results. It has already claimed several victims in Oklahoma, Kansas, Alabama and Iowa.
Effects of explosive methane emissions could undermine the efforts of global treaties.
‘MaxLax’ is certainly living up to its name. The Swiss-developed drug can entirely purge a human’s digestive system in under three minutes.
‘This is the laser-guided missile of laxatives’, said the product’s press release just two weeks ago when it was launched on global markets – after three years of clinical trials.
But not everyone is so impressed. Greenpeace has called for a worldwide ban, saying that if MaxLax achieves the sales its makers forecast, it could lead to further degradation of polar ice caps (prompting a 2 cm rise in the world’s sea levels), and knock-on effects to wildlife and habitats around the globe.
Leading environmentalist Al Gore concurred: ‘Something doesn’t smell right about this’.