Japanese miracle medicine collapsed for 40 years! Chinese love to buy

Author | Cat brother

Source | Big Cat Finance Pro

Japan bowed again, this time because of the "strongest hypolipidemic drug" that has been boasting about constantly, this drug is produced by Japan's god-level Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, which said that the red yeast rice ingredients in it may contain unknown ingredients outside the company's control.

The drug killed two people and hospitalized more than 100 people, and the key point is that this health medicine is particularly popular with Chinese.

You go to Japan now to see, the commercial street is full of Chinese, walk a few steps to hear Chinese, this is because the yen has depreciated too much in recent years, now 1 yuan can be exchanged for 21 yen, and the two countries are not far away, so now many Chinese go to Japan to sweep goods, even in China, you can also buy non-stop through purchasing agents, in the purchase list, Japanese medicines, health products are very popular.

But many people don't know that Japanese people don't dare to buy these medicines and health products casually, because they are not at ease with many products.

This brings us to another Kobayashi.

In 2020, a notorious incident occurred in Japan.

The protagonist of this incident is called Kobayashi Chemical, a medicine it produces, misplaced raw materials and dosage, the result is that taking a pill of this medicine is equivalent to taking 25 sleeping pills, this dose is not a few people can resist, as a result, two people died, more than 200 people were confused, and there were 22 more serious car accidents, and the driver fell asleep.

So the official began to investigate, and the results of the investigation were even more frightening, how did this drug come out?

1. During production, some employees found that the raw materials were not enough, so he decided to replenish the materials by himself, which is absolutely not allowed according to the production regulations;

2. Add it, add it, and add it wrong, a carton and a metal box, the size is not the same, but it is the wrong one;

3. Even if it is normal feeding, two people need to confirm each other, and only one person violates the operation this time;

4. This kind of operation should be recorded in detail, Japan is more traditional, all are handwritten records, and when checked afterwards, the operation records of the day are lost;

5. When leaving the factory for testing, the workers will confirm the composition through the chromatograph, and the inspectors found the problem, suspecting that it was mixed with foreign bodies, and after reporting, the company did not care, and then left the factory.

This medicine is so sloppy, what about the other medicines?

I was even more dumbfounded when I launched a check, this Kobayashi Chemical produces more than 500 kinds of drugs, and the manufacturing records of more than 400 kinds of drugs are all fake, which means that 80% of the drugs are problematic.

And these problems have lasted for 40 years, and the company's management acquiesced, which is definitely a big scandal, and the company's leaders lined up to bow and apologize.

In fact, this company is very familiar with this kind of operation, just a few months ago, seven Japanese pharmaceutical companies were found to contain carcinogens in their drugs, including Kobayashi Chemical, which is very common for the treatment of stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers.

If it is found that it should be recalled, it will be recalled, but this Kobayashi Chemical said that the reason why carcinogens appeared was because of problems with raw materials, and these raw materials were all bought from China.

Let's put it this way, even the Japanese can't stand it, and if there is a problem with the raw materials, won't you not buy it? If there is a problem with the raw materials, you just use it?

Throwing the pot is not good.

Finally in March 2021, Kobayashi Chemical was officially revoked from its drug production and sales license.

But the Japanese pharmaceutical companies in question are not only Kobayashi Chemical and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.

Toyama Prefecture has long been known as the "hometown of Japanese Kampo medicine", and Nichilko is a leading generic drug company in Toyama Prefecture. In February 2020, Japanese medical workers were found to have violated production regulations, and for the past ten years, they have been crushing and reprocessing drugs that have not passed quality inspections, and they have not carried out relevant tests before shipping.

In November 2022, Japan's century-old brand Kokando was exposed to a scandal, not only violating the regulations in terms of production methods, but also not having the most basic drug tests on pharmaceutical raw materials.

When the Japanese government looked at it, it said that it would be better to expand the scope, and it turned out that 351 prescription drugs had similar problems.

In the past few years, 14 Japanese pharmaceutical companies have been punished, the basic problem is that there are problems with raw materials, manufacturing violations, tampering with data, testing fraud, and more than 1,000 kinds of drugs are exposed to non-compliance and other problems in the self-inspection of 38 corporate members of the Japan Generic Drug Association.

How to say, it's basically a murderous operation.

And in this, there are many Internet celebrity drugs, especially sought after by many Chinese.

Some people say that the effect is really good.

There must be a curative effect, and the drug is fierce.

Like the Internet celebrity medicine White Rabbit painkiller tablets, the "analgesic" effect is good, because a hypnotic sedative called valproyl urea (Apronal) is added to the drug ingredients.

This sedative has been developed for nearly 100 years, the sedative effect is very strong, at the beginning many people still used it as a sleeping pill, but after 1950, doctors found that this drug caused a lot of cases of acute liver damage, and even cases of acute liver failure, so the United States was the first to ban it, and later various countries banned the use of this sedative, China did not approve it at all, and now only Japan is still using this fierce drug.

The analgesic effect is good, but there is really liver failure, who do you go to?

Another example is the very popular "Golden Slimming Set", which is known as "no side effects".

In this golden weight loss package, the "early one" drug is called levothyroxine sodium tablets in Chinese, which is a prescription drug used to treat goiter and hypofunction, which cannot be used casually and needs to be taken according to the doctor's advice, and the result becomes a miracle drug after a meal.

For example, the "Internet celebrity nasal spray" made in Japan, which claims to be able to treat rhinitis, and the ingredient that works is "naphazoline hydrochloride", when it is first used, the nasal receptors are stimulated by a large amount of adrenaline, which will relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion. But over time, it is easy to form drug resistance, aggravate the condition, China eliminated it twenty years ago, but in Japan it doesn't matter, not to mention that under a package, the main buyer of this drug has become Chinese, and the pharmaceutical company doesn't matter.

Now there are indeed many Chinese people who are full of superstition about Japanese products, in fact, the myth of Japanese manufacturing in recent years is constantly broken, Kobe steel counterfeiting, car airbags, brakes, seat belts are all fake, are used in Toyota, Honda these cars, they made the British high-speed rail leakage, the longest sea-crossing bridge in Southeast Asia, three days after the construction of the collapse.

In the 80s of the last century, Japan's craftsmanship spirit and lean manufacturing did set a high standard of Japanese manufacturing, but now, more than 70% of Japanese people also admit that the quality of Japanese manufacturing has seriously declined, but they feel that the main reason is that China is too volatile, snatching away many customers and robbing them of their profits.

But you can't fake it, especially the counterfeiting of medicines, airbags, brakes, etc., which all cost people's lives.

It can only be said that in the face of interests and competition, what is finally shown is the human nature at the bottom, and from a historical point of view, the Japanese do not even cherish their own lives, let alone the lives of others.