A consumer update from the FDA warns that injectable skin lightening products are unapproved, untested drugs that could potentially cause harm. The FDA adds that it has not approved any injectable drugs for skin whitening or lightening.

“These products pose a potentially significant safety risk to consumers. You’re essentially injecting an unknown substance into your body—you don’t know what it contains or how it was made,” says In Kim, a pharmacist at FDA.

Read the full update at http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm460788.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery