Many beauty lovers want to have a slim body, but it is not easy to lose weight, not only to keep your mouth shut, but also to open your legs. However, some sellers claim that there is a magical "enzyme plum", people who want to lose weight can't control their mouths and can't open their legs, this is not a thing, and they can become thinner by eating this "enzyme plum" while lying down.
What kind of food is this, and it has such a miraculous weight loss effect? If it has such a miraculous effect, why do some people have severe diarrhea after eating this "enzyme plum"?
In March this year, the Zhangjiagang police in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, during their daily online inspections, found a food called "Enzyme Huamei" on sale on multiple online platforms, claiming that it can lose weight after eating, and the product has a huge sales volume.
Xu Chenzhou, Deputy Captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Zhangjiagang Municipal Public Security Bureau: Based on the work experience and professional sensitivity of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Police, we suspect that this product may be illegally added.
The police contacted a number of consumers who had purchased the product and found that most of them had adverse reactions after eating the food.
Ms. Liu, a consumer in Datong, Shanxi: After eating for two days, I was very dizzy, vomiting, diarrhea and diarrhea. Later, I ate a little more after two days, and after eating a little, it was very serious, and people were almost dying, and they didn't dare to go out without a toilet nearby.
Since this product can have adverse side effects after consumption, the police decided to test it.
Xu Chenzhou, deputy captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of Zhangjiagang Public Security Bureau: We took the initiative to contact some buyers and obtained the physical object of the "Enzyme Huamei" product, and immediately sent the samples to the rapid testing laboratory of our bureau to carry out targeted testing against the list of substances that may be illegally added in food.
Molecular elucidation experiment reveals a new compound "bisoctylphenotine"
The initial inspection did not find the illegal addition of toxic and harmful substances, but after taking this miraculous "enzyme plum", consumers had obvious negative reactions, which is really a bit abnormal. The police decided to conduct a more precise molecular structure test of the product.
Xu Chenzhou, deputy captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of Zhangjiagang Municipal Public Security Bureau: The samples were sent to the joint laboratory set up by the Suzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, and the laboratory used large-scale professional equipment for in-depth testing, and found that it contained phenolic tinins.
According to experts, "bisoctylphenotine" is a new compound that has never been discovered before. So what is its function, and is it a toxic and harmful substance?
Ding Hongliu, deputy director of Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center: Dioctyphenoltine is a newly synthesized phenoltin compound, which has a relatively strong laxative effect when added to food, and this substance is similar to the structure of diacetoltine (an illegal added substance that cannot be added to food) identified by the State Administration for Market Regulation. It will affect the human body, such as electrolyte balance and vitamin absorption, which will lead to more serious harm.
Illegal addition of new derivatives
Consciously evading regulation
The emergence of dicoctyptine has brought new problems to the investigation of the police, this is a completely new compound, which has not appeared before, so how should it be identified according to relevant laws and regulations?
Although diceptyptine is a new compound, but it is similar to the structure of dicetoltine can be found, the State Administration for Market Regulation recently released relevant documents show that dicetoltine has not been approved by the State Drug Administration as a drug or raw material production or import. Due to its serious adverse reactions, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Announcement on Canceling the Drug Registration Certificate of Phenolphthalein Tablets and Phenolphthalein Lozenges (No. 6 of 2021)" in 2021. According to the Food Safety Law, no drugs can be added to food, and such raw materials have never been approved as food additives or new food ingredients, as well as health food raw materials. Therefore, phenolstin, phenolphthalein and their ester derivatives or similar substances are detected in food, which are illegal additives. They have the risk of toxic side effects on the human body, affecting human health, and even endangering life. Regulators believe that producers have added a new compound, "bis-occtexine", to diet foods to evade regulation.
Ding Hongliu, deputy director of Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center: Because the daily testing of the country will not detect this substance, because there is no such thing at all, it will definitely not be detected. It is not easy to be detected when it is added, and even if it is discovered, it is not easy to be recognized as a toxic or harmful substance, so they are consciously evading supervision.
In response to the addition of dicoctyl in food, the police entrusted the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau to organize provincial and municipal food safety experts to conduct a demonstration.
Ding Hongliu, deputy director of Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center: The joint expert argument has proved that the two of them are the same type of compounds, have the same toxicity, and are illegally added substances. Later, the State Administration for Market Regulation also released corresponding expert demonstration materials, determining that phenolic compounds, including some of its structural analogues, are illegally added toxic and harmful substances.
After clarifying the illegal additives and their toxic and harmful properties in the "Enzyme Plum", the Suzhou police in Jiangsu Province quickly filed a case for investigation and set up a special team to carry out investigation and evidence collection.
Cut off the industrial chain
More than 80 suspects were arrested
The task force found that the gang's production factory was hidden in an industrial zone outside Jiangsu Province, with a large production scale and a huge sales system on the Internet.
Yu Yuefei, deputy captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Zhangjiagang Municipal Public Security Bureau: We found that the production enterprises involved in the case have formal food production qualifications in the local area, but they are secretly engaged in illegal additions, and their products involve many types of Internet celebrity products such as plum, jelly, and solid drinks.
The products produced by the factory have a huge network sales system, and some products even rely on network marketing to become Internet celebrity products.
Yu Yuefei, deputy captain of the Food and Drug Environmental Investigation Brigade of the Zhangjiagang Municipal Public Security Bureau: In order to be able to catch the "eyeballs" of consumers, the criminal gang specially compiled a set of marketing tactics, advertising its products as pure natural food, rich in dietary fiber and natural enzymes, telling consumers that they do not need to open their legs or keep their mouths shut, as long as they eat their products, they can quickly achieve the effect of "laxative" and "slimming".
Under the unified deployment and command of the Ministry of Public Security, the Jiangsu police dispatched more than 180 police forces to carry out joint network collection operations in five provinces and seven cities, arrested more than 80 criminal suspects in one fell swoop, destroyed 6 production and storage dens outside the province, seized more than 60 tons of products involved in the case, and the total amount involved exceeded 100 million yuan, completely cutting off a black and ash industry chain in the food field integrating research and development, production, promotion and sales.
Slimming should be scientific
In addition, experts said that weight loss should be done in a scientific and reasonable way, and do not blindly believe in online propaganda to achieve the purpose of weight loss in the way of diarrhea, which is very likely to cause harm to physical health.
Experts say that foods with added pharmaceutical ingredients can also be preliminarily judged based on the body's reaction after consumption.
Ding Hongliu, deputy director of Suzhou Food Inspection and Testing Center: If you purchase ordinary food, there is a very obvious reaction after eating, such as diarrhea and blood pressure reduction, you should be alert. It is equivalent to using the drug as a snack, which will cause greater harm in the long run.
In addition, the police also reminded that when buying food, you must go through formal channels, do not believe misleading advertisements and false propaganda, and recommend that everyone maintain a healthy posture through physical exercise and scientific diet. If there is a suspicious problem in the food, it should be reported to the market supervision department and the public security organ in a timely manner.
Source: CCTV comprehensive CCTV news client