Joanna Ford, 46, sentenced to one year in a provincial jail after pleading guilty to bilking a Health Canada program for First Nations communities of more than $300,000 over two years.
“Studies of the fat-burning properties of raspberry ketones have only been done on mice, in the laboratory .... There does not appear to be any clinical evidence that raspberry ketones confer weight loss benefits to humans.”
On September 28, 2012 a 41-year-old Ottawa pharmacist received a two year (less a day) jail sentence for child luring, sexual interference, and criminal harassment.
