Text/Editor丨Qingtian Imperial History
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The products that are blown up in China and are actually not easily tried by the Japanese are wildly sought after by the Chinese people. However, the myth of quality created by Japanese manufacturing in the past is now collapsing more and more of the "craftsman spirit" that has been preached to the sky. From miracle drugs to poisons, health products to "life-killing charms", products that Japan better not touch again, some Chinese are still stupidly suffering.
After 15, 25, or even 30 years of concealment, Japanese companies have not only been frantically keen to create "craftsman spirit", but also concealed data fraud without blushing or beating their hearts. When the truth is revealed, they just "bow", "apologize", and "apologize"!
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As Japan's "top giant", Kobayashi Pharmaceutical is nothing compared with the domestic 315 party anti-counterfeiting. As of March 29, 5 people have unfortunately passed away after taking the health care product, and hundreds of people have been hospitalized. This is not a food safety accident caused by a black-hearted workshop, but Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, which has been advertised as a "miracle drug" many times, is a well-known industry giant in Japan.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical has been committed to the functional research of red yeast rice, and has launched this problematic product "Red Yeast Cholesterol Granules", which focuses on lowering cholesterol. In 2021, it began sales in pharmacies in Japan, with a cumulative sales volume of 1.1 million copies and sales of 600 million yen.
In the early years, there were reports of victimization of red yeast rice health foods in Europe, and in Switzerland, it was illegal to buy or sell products containing red yeast rice. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical not only made a lot of money through red yeast cholesterol granules, but also supplied about 16.1 tons of the 18.5 tons of red yeast rice raw materials it produced to other manufacturers in 2023, which may affect 33,000 companies in Japan.
The impact of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's accident is huge, and there are many areas that cannot be fully controlled, but this serious accident is not accidental. As early as mid-January, a consumer had kidney problems, and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical did not take substantive action after starting an investigation, and did not have to apologize until the problem spread to human life.
Health care product companies in Taiwan, China, have also purchased red yeast rice raw materials from Japan's Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, resulting in 30 reported cases. In the mainland, there are still a number of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's online health care "miracle medicines", and the mainland market has become the second largest overseas market for Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, contributing 13.6 billion yen in revenue. Health care products have become a "life-saving charm", and Kobayashi Pharmaceutical can be said to be "making money and killing people".
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Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's red yeast rice incident is not an exception, and Kobayashi Chemical, which is the same time-honored brand as Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, also thundered three years ago. In 2021, there was a notorious incident at Kobayashi Chemical, which led some medical scholars to have huge doubts about Japanese pharmaceuticals. At that time, an oral antifungal drug was mixed with some illegal operations and was put on the market, causing health damage to as many as 239 patients, the content of the sleep inducer reached 2.5 times the highest limit in Japan, and some patients even lost consciousness after taking the product, causing 22 traffic accidents and two deaths.
Behind this incident, it is the most surprising thing that Kobayashi Chemical has been involved in long-term fraud. Its executives have been unaware of the situation, fabricating quality test results for 40 years, and as many as 80 percent of the more than 500 drugs the company produces have false manufacturing records. Kobayashi Chemical's products are a must-buy product for Chinese tourists when they visit Japan, which means that Chinese buy a large number of Japanese-made drugs without quality inspection reports, and they are constantly paying for Japan's shoddy manufacturing.
After such a big medical scandal in Kobayashi Chemical, the local government only suspended its business for 116 days, which set a record for the longest suspension of business by a Japanese pharmaceutical company, but it did not put an end to this phenomenon. It has to be said that Japanese companies are not only keen to create so-called "amazing effects", but also have the habit of concealing and evading counterfeiting, and they are still being snapped up by unsuspecting consumers after "bowing", "apologizing" and "sorry" with one click.
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The recent thunderstorm of Japan's well-known gastrointestinal medicine Jidong Zhenglu Pill is another Internet celebrity drug data fraud after the Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Red Yeast Rice incident. As a Japanese pharmaceutical giant, Far East was found to have a serious discrepancy between the active ingredient and the advertised function of the century-old "Zhenglu Pill" during a sudden inspection, and the company has even been tampering with experimental data for the past 30 years in order to hide the truth.
However, the act of falsifying data in order to successfully market "Zhenglu Pill" through data also occurred in four other gastrointestinal drugs except "Zhenglu Pill", and it was also revealed that the raw materials were procured without conducting quality tests, but directly using the experimental data of the raw material manufacturer.
As soon as a series of illegal things came out, Jidong Company came forward to apologize, saying that it had always lacked the awareness of abiding by the law in the past, and sincerely apologized to the relevant people. In accordance with the local Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Law, it was decided to suspend the business of Jidong Company, stop manufacturing pharmaceuticals in Jidong for 23 days, and stop selling them for 22 days. The degree of punishment is disappointing, after all, "Zhenglu Pill" has been sold well in China and Southeast Asia, and is regarded by many people as a regular medicine at home.
In recent years, Chinese tour groups have come to Japan to buy on behalf of others, and many merchants will put this medicine in the most obvious position in the store. In fact, there have been many articles on the safety of the ingredients of these products, but they have been vigorously denied by the company, and Japanese pharmaceutical companies have also been banned by many Western countries because of quality problems. However, it seems that Chinese people have always taken Japanese products for granted as "efficient and safe" and "quality passable", but they don't know that "craftsmanship" is the biggest lie.
Despite the long distance and high price, they are happy to buy Japanese medicines and put real money into the pockets of Japanese people, when in fact these drugs not only have no great effect, but can harm health. When some consumers saw these scandals in the Far East, they couldn't help but be shocked: "No wonder taking this medicine has no effect."
Facts have proved that Japanese pharmaceutical companies not only do not roll up their strength, but instead roll up their "counterfeiting ability", and in order to make their "amazing efficacy", they do not hesitate to deceive consumers for decades. What's even more frustrating is that Japan's current food safety review system is very strict, and these pharmaceutical companies can openly take risks under the nose of the law, which is really shocking to the Chinese people. If more and more people knew about the shady scenes of Japan's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, would they still be happy to send themselves into the tiger's mouth?