News by Alex Blair  A US family selling bleach disguised as a miracle remedy for a wide range of medical afflictions has been busted in Florida. A federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment charging 62-year-old Mark Grenon and his three sons Jonathan Grenon, 34, Jordan Grenon, 26, and Joseph Grenon, 32 with fraud after their extensive operation allowed the dodgy cure to land in the hands of thousands of vulnerable people searching for remedies. The indictment found the family manufactured a product called the Miracle Mineral Solution , which was revealed to be a chemical solution containing sodium chlorite and water. If ingested orally, the solution becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach typically used for industrial water treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp, and paper .
April 25, 2021 | 5:37 PM
MIAMI Leaders of a business masquerading as a church sold a toxic bleach solution as a religious sacrament and marketed it as a “miracle” cure for COVID-19, cancer, autism, Alzheimer’s disease and more, federal prosecutors said.
A federal grand jury in Miami has indicted Mark Grenon, 62, and his three sons, Jonathan Grenon, 34; Jordan Grenon, 26; and Joseph Grenon, 32; all of Bradenton, Florida. Prosecutors said Friday that they violated court orders and fraudulently produced and sold more than $1 million of their “Miracle Mineral Solution,” a dangerous industrial bleach solution.
The solution contains sodium chlorite and water. When it is ingested orally, it becomes chlorine dioxide, a strong bleach used in industrial water treatments and in bleaching textiles, pulp or paper, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said.
$1 Million in Toxic Bleach Sold as âMiracleâ Cure, Officials Say
A Florida grand jury indicted a man and his three sons, accusing them of marketing an âunproven and potentially harmfulâ solution as a remedy for Covid-19, cancer, autism and more.
The Genesis II Church of Healing placed consumers at risk âby peddling potentially dangerous and unapproved chlorine dioxide products,â the F.D.A. said.Credit.United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
April 25, 2021Updated 1:45 p.m. ET
MIAMI â Leaders of a business masquerading as a church sold a toxic bleach solution as a religious sacrament and marketed it as a âmiracleâ cure for Covid-19, cancer, autism, Alzheimerâs disease and more, federal prosecutors said.