CCTV exposure： Toxic and harmful hypoglycemic health foods are easily labeled with the number ＂National Food Health Word＂
CCTV News:Diabetes is one of the common chronic diseases, and modern medicine can’t cure diabetes, so diabetics have to take medicine for life. However, in Taizhou, Zhejiang, an online shop claimed that there was a food that could lower blood sugar instead of drugs, and the local market supervision department launched an investigation.
In the name of consumers, the inspectors bought all the suspicious goods being sold in this online store. As can be seen from the appearance, Renhe Yibao Capsule, which is nominally jointly supervised by China Academy of Chinese Medicine and the Second Military Medical University of China People’s Liberation Army, indicates that it can remove drug toxicity and repair islets; The highest-priced product in online stores, which is called insulin II, claims to have American technical support and is supervised by the Diabetes Research Center of the American Military Medical College. It is a product sold only in Chinese mainland. In addition, the packaging boxes of these commodities are also printed with the approval number of the national food health food, which is known to consumers as "police tactical unit". After verification by inspectors, these approval numbers are all false, and the factory name and address on the packaging boxes can’t correspond. For further analysis and verification, the inspectors sent the goods to professional testing institutions for further testing and analysis.
Test results; Most fake health products contain western medicine ingredients.
Along this line of thought, the inspectors made a specific testing plan, and screened 11 kinds of drugs corresponding to diabetes one by one. It was found that these health foods all contained western medicine ingredients to varying degrees.
Among the 19 samples tested, 14 samples were found to contain western medicine, of which 8 samples contained phenformin hydrochloride, and the other 6 samples also contained glibenclamide and metformin hydrochloride.
It is understood that both phenformin hydrochloride and glibenclamide are prescription drugs that inhibit moderate type 2 diabetes and have a certain insulin secretion function. According to the clear provisions of China’s Food Safety Law, health food as food should not be added with drugs; At the same time, the label description of health food should not involve the expression of disease prevention and treatment functions. These health foods that claim to have hypoglycemic effect are not only found to contain western medicine ingredients, but also use false "national food health word" health food numbers, which are typical counterfeit health foods, so the actions of their producers and operators have been suspected of breaking the law.
Layers of distribution captured many suspects.
After confirming the existence of illegal acts, the inspectors immediately inquired about the online shop operator, and the owner provided the clue that the supplier lived in Henan Province. The inspectors immediately set up a task force with the local public security department to control the supplier in gongyi city, Henan Province.
The supplier purchased 400,000 yuan in less than one year.
According to the supplier Zhou Pengwei, he didn’t know the identity of the supplier. Both parties contacted and delivered the goods through WeChat. In less than a year, he accumulated five varieties and more than 400,000 yuan in goods from this supplier. After continuous monitoring, the electronic data forensics center in State Administration for Market Regulation, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, monitored that this family landed in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
After investigation, Yang Jiandong and his wife set up a courier company, but it is strange that the courier company has almost no business and can’t deliver several packages a day. By checking the express list of dozens of boxes of goods collected from Zhou Pengwei, the case-handling personnel locked a shipper named Zhu Xiangna, and finally determined that the goods were sent from the underground storage room of Zhu Xiangna’s garage.
National wholesalers sell hundreds of thousands of fake health products every month.
The case-handling personnel combined with the local public security department to take the action of closing the net, confirming that Zhu Xiangna is the top seller of Zhou Pengwei’s sales channel and a wholesaler facing the whole country. She mainly sells through WeChat group, and the average monthly cargo volume is about 200,000 yuan or so.
Through the clues provided by the delivery truck driver, the case-handling personnel arrested Liu Wei, the owner of toxic and harmful counterfeit health food, in zhongmou county. In his production and processing site, you can see that a large number of packaged capsule plates and semi-finished raw material powders are stored here, and about 700,000 health food capsules that have been produced but not yet sold have been collected on the spot. He sent more than 2 million pieces of goods to Zhu Xiangna and Yang Jiandong, and the accumulated sales amount was about 200,000 yuan.
Tracing back to the fact that the raw materials of western medicine actually came from regular pharmaceutical factories.
According to the owner’s account, the main raw material in capsule production is western medicine powder, which was consigned to him by a man named Zhang Xinglin in Bozhou, Anhui. The investigators conducted a basic information search on Zhang Xinglin, and found that this person had a record of manufacturing and selling counterfeit drugs.
Western medicine raw materials are disguised as fish food.
Zhang Xinglin frequents five places: the actual residence, the domicile, a farm house in a remote suburb, a consignment station and a Chinese medicine factory. He occasionally goes to the Chinese medicine factory to buy some Chinese medicine powder packed in yellow snakeskin bags, and occasionally sends it to the consignment station. From the consignment note, the goods he sends are marked as fish food. Zhang Xinglin, who was consigning drug powder, was arrested by the investigators at the freight station. In the warehouse where the investigators led Zhang Xinglin to identify the scene involved, we can see that boxes of western medicine glibenclamide tablets have not been opened, snakeskin bags filled with Chinese medicine powder are piled up in the corner, and there are many drums filled with white powder. At the unpacking and processing point, empty bottles of western medicine are all over the floor, so they are piled up in a corner of the house. After checking by inspectors, there are as many as 320,000 empty bottles of western medicine collected at the processing point in Zhang Xinglin.
Fake health food processing sites are extremely dirty.
Entering another processing point, the dirty scene in front of us makes it impossible to imagine that this is actually a place for processing health food raw materials. Bags of various fine particles that Zhang Xinglin himself can’t tell apart are piled all over the floor. The collected western medicine particles are beaten into powder on such a machine, and then the powder is mixed with various other powders at will with such a tool and roughly stirred, so that it can be packed into barrels and become the finished powder sold to the next family, and that bag is packed in snakeskin bags.
Some of the raw materials involved came from regular pharmaceutical factories.
Zhang Xinglin confessed that the western medicine powder he sold was sold to Liu Wei at the price of 80 yuan per kilogram. In more than a year, the sales amount of powder and raw materials he sold to Liu Wei totaled more than 200,000 yuan. In the warehouse in Zhang Xinglin, the investigators collected 25 boxes of unopened glibenclamide tablets. After searching the batch numbers of these drugs and checking with the manufacturers, it was confirmed that they were all genuine western medicines produced by regular pharmaceutical factories. According to this clue, the case-handling personnel arrested Li Panpan, a supplier who was not qualified for drug business, in Taihe County, Anhui Province. At this point, the case of manufacturing and selling toxic and harmful counterfeit health food covering the whole country was completely solved.
Fabricate the number of "national food health word" for profiteering
After the suspect arrived at the case, he confessed the facts of the crime. They packaged the food containing pharmaceutical ingredients into health food, fabricated a number of "national food health word" and sold it to the outside world. According to Zhu Xiangna, the reason why their products sell so much is because the effect of lowering blood sugar in the beginning is very obvious, so most of these buyers will buy back.
Glibenclamide is a chemical that specifically inhibits moderate type II diabetes. Each bottle contains 100 such small tablets, each of which is only 2.5 mg. The instructions for taking glibenclamide indicate that normal patients can only take one tablet a day, and those with mild symptoms can only take half a tablet a day. Inspectors said that through the whole production and processing process of counterfeit products, it can be known that the biggest risk faced by consumers lies in the uneven amount of drugs added in these health foods, which may lead to the occurrence of hyperlactaemia or lactic acidosis in the light, and even sudden death in the severe cases.
Inspectors also said that there is almost no continuous brand management of such health food. Basically, the same product name and packaging are printed hundreds or one or two thousand boxes at a time, and then other product names and packaging are changed after use. Even the production address and the serial number of "National Food Health Word" are printed at will.
The reporter randomly found a pharmacy and found glibenclamide tablets on the counter in the prescription drug section. A bottle of 100 tablets was packaged, and the retail price was 2.5 yuan. Zhang Xinglin bought glibenclamide tablets from Li Panpan in boxes according to the wholesale price, and the traceable drug cost has reached more than 300,000 yuan. Zhang Xinglin sold the western medicine powder to the manufacturer Liu Wei at the price of one kilogram of 80 yuan. Liu Wei mixed and stirred the western medicine raw materials, filled them into capsules, packed them in boxes of various brands, and sold them to Zhu Xiangna, Yang Jiandong and others at the price of 12.5 yuan. They wholesale to agents including Zhou Pengwei at the price of 30-35 yuan in WeChat group, and the agents like Zhou Pengwei sell them to dealers like Zhang Liangbo at the price of 45-50 yuan. By the time these toxic and harmful health foods illegally added with western medicine reach consumers, the price of each box has increased to 125 yuan.
In order to avoid supervision, these people who manufacture and sell toxic and harmful counterfeit health foods will use the increasingly developed network to reduce the relevance of each link, and at the same time use virtual identities to complete transactions and money transfers, which makes it extremely difficult to handle cases. To this end, the market supervision department and the public security department have formulated a system of linking case investigation and execution, tracing every small clue to the source and checking it to the end.
This mega-case of producing and selling toxic and harmful hypoglycemic health foods eventually arrested 13 suspects. Through this crackdown, the market supervision department smashed 10 production, sales and storage dens and seized more than 100,000 boxes of counterfeit health food, with a case value of 1.6 billion yuan.