Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced a number of typical cases of the "Iron Fist" action in the field of people's livelihood. Among them, the market supervision bureau of Tongling City, Anhui Province, cracked a case of producing and selling "slimming candy" containing the illegal additive sibutramine, which has been widely concerned.
The internet celebrity anchor was investigated with goods
Previously, the Tongling Municipal Market Supervision Bureau received a consumer complaint report, saying that it purchased a trial package of "slimming candy" through WeChat transfer on the live broadcast platform, and there was an uncomfortable reaction after taking it. Tongling City Market Supervision Bureau law enforcement personnel using rapid detection methods, preliminary judgment of the tablet candy added to the banned drug sibutramine, immediately filed a case investigation, and the tablet candy for statutory inspection, the test results showed that the product's sibutramine content of 44.8mg / g.
The law enforcement personnel of the Tongling Market Supervision Bureau found in the investigation that the two sellers of the "slimming candy" had more than 200,000 fans on the live broadcast platform, and the account names were "Extreme Energy G-" and "Qin Qin (Two Mouths Daily)", and the two were also advertising and selling the "slimming candy" in the WeChat circle of friends.
Tongling Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, together with the public security organs, went to Zhengzhou to inspect the production and processing site of the "slimming candy" according to the clues obtained. Law enforcement officers found and destroyed 2 production and processing dens at the scene, seized 20 tablets and capsule production equipment, and more than 300 kilograms of tablet candy and raw materials involved in the case, and arrested a total of 12 criminal suspects.
The price has increased by more than 30 times
Law enforcement personnel saw in the production workshop of the "slimming candy" in a village in Huiji District, Zhengzhou City, that the simple brick and tile house was placed with mixers, granulators, tablet presses, sugar coating machines, handmade capsule filling machines and other equipment, the production table was covered with oil and scale, all kinds of dextrin, talc, microcrystalline cellulose and other raw materials were piled up in the corners, the ground and room were scattered with tablets, and the "slimming candies" that had been made were packed in large plastic bags and plastic barrels, waiting to be wrapped in a layer of foam film, loaded into a carton and expressed to buyers.
According to the parties' accounts, the tablet-pressed candies and slimming capsules produced by this production and processing den were sold to the middlemen in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, at a price of 0.8 yuan per capsule, and the middlemen then sold to the "net reds with goods" who were responsible for sales in Anhui and Shandong at a price of 1.6 yuan / grain, and the "net reds with goods" were made into small packages and sold to the victims at a price of 269 yuan / bag (10 pills), and the price doubled by more than 30 times.
The public security organs investigated and verified that the parties procure and sell sibutramine raw materials according to purity pricing, generally about 7,000 yuan per kilogram, but the content of sibutramine in the product is 44.8mg/g, less than 5% of the whole, the rest of the ingredients are composed of dextrin, talc, microcrystalline cellulose and other raw materials, according to the market price, the price of dextrin per kilogram is about 5 yuan, talc is often sold in tons, the price per ton is usually in the hundreds of yuan, and its selling price is compared to the price of raw materials, and the degree of profiteering is amazing.
Sibutramine was banned
In 1998, sibutramine was first listed in the United States because it could suppress the appetite center, promote the body's stomach fullness, reduce appetite, and was used as a diet pill. However, in the more than ten years after the listing, a large number of adverse reactions of sibutramine were reported at home and abroad.
Zhang Shige, chief pharmacist of the Department of Pharmacy of Peking University's Fourth Clinical Medical College and Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, said that sibutramine has the effect of raising blood pressure and accelerating heart rate, which can cause cardiovascular adverse reactions such as increased heart rate, palpitations, and increased blood pressure, and can lead to cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction when severe. Sibutramine can also lead to insomnia, headache and other problems, and in severe cases, it can cause abnormal thinking, emotional disorders, mental upset, limb spasms, epileptic seizures, mania, etc., and even lead to suicidal behavior.
In 2010, sibutramine was banned or withdrawn from the market in 68 countries around the world, including China, but because of its certain weight loss effect, the phenomenon of illegal addition was repeatedly prohibited. Zhang Shige said that the safety of drugs is ranked first in the efficacy, if not safe, the efficacy can not be used no matter how good. According to the clinical drug case analysis, sibutramine is not eaten in large amounts and for a long time to have serious adverse reactions, and may also have serious adverse reactions when eaten once by chance, or adversely affect offspring.
Medical experts suggest that consumers should reduce weight by increasing exercise and a reasonable diet, if they need to take medication, they should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, do not trust the so-called "weight loss" product publicity, rational consumption.
The State Administration of Market Supervision reminds consumers that if they have symptoms such as loss of appetite, insomnia, thirst, constipation and other symptoms after eating such products, they should be highly vigilant and complain and report through the national 12315 platform. Jiang Xin
Source: China Consumer Daily