| Certificates and studies |
As a certified medical device manufacturer, fangocur produces in accordance with international standards.
Manufacturers of medical devices face a wide range of challenges. The market is characterized by rapid innovation and progress. At the same time, manufacturers of medical devices must fulfill their responsibilities to a particularly high degree in order to ensure the greatest possible benefit for patients. In other words, there is hardly any other sector where quality is so important.
Certification is an inspection by an independent accredited certification body. It checks whether the rules established in the company for production and quality control comply with the strict legal requirements of the European Union and are consistently adhered to. Only if the highest quality criteria are met on an ongoing basis and this can be proven will the certificate be issued to the manufacturer of medical products.
fangocur regularly undergoes this strict testing process and has been awarded the certificate continuously for more than 10 years.
You can therefore rely on the quality of fangocur products.
The properties of our certified medical products are not based on results from human clinical studies for the most part and are therefore not uncontroversial in pharmaceutical science. However, there is medical literature, experience in spa medicine and studies that attribute numerous positive effects to the main ingredient healing earth in various medical applications.
Our medical products are legally approved for the treatment of the indications described on this website.
The evidence of the effects is based on the following studies, the full texts of which we are unfortunately unable to make available to the public for reasons of competition law.
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| Studies for internal use (drinking cures) |
– Balneomedical statement on the use of bentonite for peloid cure purposes, associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, Medical University of Vienna, Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology, 26.7.2006.
– Balneomedical expert opinion concerning an extension of the application of Gossendorf bentonite for drinking cure purposes and for the treatment of certain skin diseases; associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, Medical University of Vienna, Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology, 25.7.2006.
– Supplementary expert opinion on certain indications for drinking cure applications and applications for certain dermatological purposes concerning the mail-order product Fangocur from the natural local healing deposit Gossendorf bentonite, associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, specialist for medical performance physiology, Vienna International Academy for Holistic Medicine, 4.2.2009.
– Toxicological expert opinion concerning the reliability of the use of Gossendorf bentonite for drinking cure purposes in accordance with the requirements of the Office of the Styrian Provincial Government (decision of 29.1.2009), Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Graz, Prof. Dr. E. Beubler, Institute Director, 4.2.2009.
– Medical-balneological expert opinion on certain potentially harmful trace elements in Gossendorf bentonite, associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, Medical University of Vienna, Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology, 4.2.2009.
– Expert opinion on the use of Gossendorf bentonite as an additive for drinking cures in accordance with the decision of the Styrian Provincial Government of January 29, 2009; Institute of Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry Division, Ass. Prof. Dr. Herbert Greschonig, 5.2.2009.
– Extended expert opinion on the Bentomed product, associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, specialist in medical performance physiology, Vienna International Academy for Holistic Medicine, 28.2.2011.
– Expert opinion on the clinical efficacy of the product "fangocur Bentomed"; associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, specialist in medical performance physiology, Vienna International Academy for Holistic Medicine, 14.5.2012.
– Testing the antibacterial effect of healing clay (Escherichia coli, Helicobacter pylori), OFI Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut, Technologie & Innovation GmbH, DI Gabriele Ettenberger-Bornberg, BA, Vienna 23.10.2012; result: antibacterial effect proven in vitro.
– Balneomedical expert opinion on the Bentomed medical device, associate professor Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, specialist in medical performance physiology, Vienna International Academy for Holistic Medicine, 16.1.2013.
– Feasibility Study, New forms of application for inflammation and cancer, OFI Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut, Technologie & Innovation GmbH, DI Gabriele Ettenberger-Bornberg, BA, Vienna 2016; research questions:
– Influence of healing earth on inflammatory diseases;
– Influence of healing earth on cancer; results: ad 1) positive effect in vitro on inflammation, ad 2) results allow conclusions to be drawn that healing earth can have positive effects in the fight against cancer; research recommendations: conduct further studies.
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| Other general studies/literature on fangocur healing clay |
– Styrian volcanic canton Erupton (note: earlier name for Gossendorf fango), first known published paper on healing earth, Dr. Gottfried Kopetzky, court-appointed expert for rock science, Mineralogisches Mitteilungsblatt Joanneum Graz, 2, 46-53, 1961.
– Steirischer Bentonit als Heilpeloid, Peloidanalyse, Inorganische und analytische Chemie der Universität Graz, Dr. j. Raber, 1977.
– Medical-balneological expert opinion on the usability of Gossendorf volcanic clay in the form of mud packs, Institute for Pharmacodynamics and Toxicology at the University of Graz, Prof. Dr. W. R. Kukovetz, 16.11.1978.
– Decision of the Styrian Provincial Government of July 13, 1982, recognizing the Gossendorf fango as a healing resource under the Styrian Healing Resources and Spas Act.
– Clinical evaluation according to MEDDEV 2.7.1, Rev. 4 regarding the Gossendorf Fango, 5.7.2019; OFI Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut, Technologie & Innovation GmbH, DI Gabriele Ettenberger-Bornberg, BA, Dipl. Ing. Dr. Elisabeth Mertl, Mag. Harald Huber, ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Marktl, 13.2.2012.
– Testing of in-vitro cytotoxicity according to EN ISO 10993 Part 5 and Part 12, Bentomed, OFI Austrian Research Institute, Technology & Innovation GmbH, 13.2.2012.
– Gossendorf volcanic canton, full analysis 2019, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georg Raber, 29.8.2019.
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