After the surging paper reported that there was an underground trade in poppy shells in many places, Hebei Anguo had controlled 6 people

The Paper's reporter Zhao Siwei

On May 20, 2021, The Paper reported that there was an "underground trade in poppy husks" in a number of domestic Chinese herbal medicine distribution centers, which aroused concern.

On May 21, the surging news (www.thepaper.cn) learned from Anguo City, Hebei Province, that the Anguo Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government attach great importance to this, and immediately sent a joint investigation and disposal team, starting from the three market entities involved in the report, digging deep into the entire underground trading chain, sealing illegal products, sealing all illegal business enterprises, and controlling and investigating relevant parties according to law. Up to now, the city has investigated 148 market operators and 19 restaurants, verified a total of more than 10 kilograms of poppy shells involved in illegal transactions, and controlled 6 parties.

At the same time, Anguo City has set up a special rectification action leading group for the underground trading of poppy shells, and from now on, it will carry out a one-month special rectification action for the underground trading of poppy shells, punish the illegal acts found, and improve the long-term mechanism, so as to strictly enforce the law, often pay unremitting attention, and effectively maintain the image of Anguo's "millennium medicine capital".

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