Online shopping brings convenience to consumers while providing hidden space for counterfeit foods and drugs. "About the small green box diet pills in Japan, do not eat!" "Wechat friends circle behind the purchase of diet pills" ... ... Recently, many netizens posted themselves in the forum to buy "special effects medicine" was pit experience.
The "Net Net" campaign launched by Beijing has unveiled the true face of these so-called "special effects drugs." Since March, Beijing has cracked down on internet food and drugs for crimes. As of the end of May, the Beijing Food and Drug Inspectorate jointly with the Public Security Bureau of the Environment, Food, Drug, and Tourism Security Protection Corps had cracked 155 cases of various food and drug products and seized the hypothesis of losing weight, reducing blood pressure, reducing fat, and strengthening immunity. More than 100 kinds of foods and medicines are 17729 boxes (bottles).
"When sampling and testing, it was found that 90% of illegally added ingredients exist, and some of the weight-loss drugs sold to foreign countries are even formulated and filled by themselves." Zhou Hong, deputy head of the Beijing Food and Drug Inspection Corps, said on May 4, the city public security The Bureau of Food & Beverage Brigade Brigade together with the Chaoyang Branch arrested three suspects in the production and sale of toxic and hazardous foods in Hangzhou, destroyed the production and sales dens, and obtained more than 3,000 capsules of empty capsules and more than 1,000 tablets of finished diet pills. Drug production tools and packaging materials, worth more than 20 million.
Law enforcement officials sampled 40 kinds of foods and 20 kinds of drugs sold by 130 stores on the Internet platform, claiming weight loss, blood pressure reduction, lipid lowering, immunity enhancement, and sleep improvement. 36 kinds of foods contained chemical components such as sibutramine, phenformin, glibenclamide, phenolphthalein, sildenafil, and 15 drugs were unapproved imported drugs.
Of the imported drugs investigated, overseas purchasing diet pills and eye drops have become the "hardest-hit areas." On April 15th, the Food and Drug Administration Brigade and the Chaoyang Branch jointly cracked down on illegal sales of overseas drug products. More than 40 kinds of imported medicines and nearly 1,000 cases of drugs were seized. The value of the case amounted to over one million yuan. “Although some of the drugs purchased overseas are not counterfeit drugs, the criminals are not pharmacists and have no knowledge of the dose, efficacy, and taboo crowds of drugs.†Chang Bing, Food and Drug Administration, Beijing Food and Drug Administration, Beijing Public Security Bureau Hui said that the drugs purchased through overseas purchasing channels did not pass the professional approval procedures such as clinical verification and quality testing of the National Food and Drug Administration, and there was no import drug registration certificate.
According to China's current laws and regulations governing food and drug administration, food production and marketing operators prohibit the production of non-food raw materials for food production, the addition of chemical substances other than food additives, and other foods that may harm human health substances; The supervision and management department organizes the examination, and after examination and confirmation that it meets the quality standards and is safe and effective, it can only approve the import, and issue the registration certificate for imported drugs, and the drugs that must be approved but not approved for production or import should be treated as counterfeit drugs.
According to Li Wei, head of the internet brigade of the Beijing Food and Drug Inspection Corps, the suspect sells hidden propaganda on the website of the online shop and then communicates with customers through online communication tools such as WeChat and QQ. Afterwards, payment transactions will be made in the name of buying other products. Li Xin reminded consumers: "To purchase drugs through formal channels, we must not rely on the online "immediately seen" publicity." (Intern Han Yangmei involved in writing)