Jakarta, Aug. 28 -- Indonesia's Food and Drug Control Agency (BPOM) has shut down an illegal veterinary clinic in Magelang, Central Java, for distributing unapproved secretome products, including those derived from stem cells.

BPOM head Taruna Ikrar said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the clinic's owner, identified only by the initials YHF, disguised the facility with a "veterinary practice" sign but treated human patients using unauthorized products.

The clinic - located in a densely populated residential area - allegedly injected secretome substances into patients' arms.

Authorities seized packaged secretome products, injection equipment, and wound care creams worth an estimated Rp230 billion, Ikrar said.

The perpetrators promoted the...