Good news for diabetics? Can it lower blood sugar?
Mr. Li is over 60 years old and has a history of diabetes 10 years. According to Mr. Li, when chatting with friends, someone introduced a kind of health food called "Renhe Yibao", which has the function of lowering blood sugar.
Mr. Li, a consumer in Chengde, Hebei: It is said that after eating this thing, the effect of diabetes is very good.
After returning home, Mr. Li immediately went online to inquire, and sure enough, he found this online shop selling Renhe Yibao on an e-commerce platform.
Mr. Li, a consumer in Chengde, Hebei: This big box cost more than 100 yuan. I bought five boxes at that time.
Consumers panic after eating "health products"
However, after eating for a while, Mr. Li felt obviously unwell.
Mr. Li, a consumer in Chengde, Hebei: I panicked after eating it and felt a little hypoglycemia.
The so-called "Renhe Yibao" purchased by Mr. Li from the Internet has the approval number of JZ G20060490. However, the reporter found that the product name corresponding to the approval number was Di Chin Huapai Tangshuk Capsule, which was applied by Beijing Huaxia Kangqiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. on April 14, 2006.
It is claimed that the main ingredients include nearly 20 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as American ginseng, Cordyceps sinensis and Ganoderma lucidum, and the health food labeled "pure Chinese medicine, green and healthy" has abnormal reactions after eating. Mr. Li felt that there was something wrong with the Renhe Yibao he bought, so he came to Chengde for consultation with the US Food and Drug Administration.
Zhang Xuede, Deputy Director of Market Supervision Bureau of Chengde City, Hebei Province: We have opened up a green channel and implemented quick inspection, quick identification and quick investigation. In this case, it was found that the pharmaceutical ingredient (phenformin) was added to the product.
Professionals told reporters that phenformin is a chemical substance that was used to treat diabetes in the early stage. However, medical practice has found that phenformin can cause lactic acidosis in the process of use, which can lead to death in severe cases.
Therefore, as early as 20 12, when the US Food and Drug Administration issued the List of Substances that May Be Illegally Added in Health Foods, metformin hydrochloride and phenformin hydrochloride were listed among them.
Phenylbiguanide was stopped long ago because of side effects.
On June 2006, 2065 438+065438+ 10, it was clearly pointed out that phenformin could cause lactic acidosis with high incidence and limited clinical value, and the use risk outweighed the benefits, so it was decided to stop producing, selling and using phenformin bulk drug and its preparations in China.
The production, sale and use of phenformin, which was banned by the state, was found hidden in health food. Chengde Food and Drug Administration immediately handed this clue over to Chengde Public Security Bureau.
Chen Xu, Deputy Head of Food and Drug Detachment of Chengde Public Security Bureau, Hebei Province: We immediately accepted this case and sent this box of health care products to the professional department for inspection and testing. Results Renhe Yibao, a health food, was found to contain western medicine.
Testing by authoritative departments confirmed that counterfeit health care products illegally added the banned drug phenformin.
The test results of authoritative departments finally confirmed that the banned drug phenformin was illegally added to Renhe Yibao purchased by Mr. Li, which may directly endanger the health and even life safety of consumers. Hebei police immediately set up a task force to investigate the case.
Tian Guangqing, political commissar of the Food and Drug Corps of Hebei Provincial Public Security Department: The case was directly upgraded to investigation, joint action and special project, and a powerful task force was formed to tackle the problem with all its strength.
Where did Mr. Li buy Renhe Ipoh? The police launched an investigation from the circulation channels and quickly locked in the "Five-Year Plan" food business department in Changshou District, Chongqing.
Zhang Zhongyu, Deputy Head of Food and Drug Detachment of Chengde Public Security Bureau: This store mainly sells Renhe Ipoh, as well as some other hypoglycemic health foods, which are promoted and sold through online marketing of WeChat or QQ.
The reporter learned in the interview that Wu Wu's food business department is operated by Cheng in Chongqing, and there are also online stores on the e-commerce platform to sell toxic and harmful health foods such as Renhe Yibao and Baicaotang to the whole country. Police investigations show that these products are not produced by Cheng himself, but are only secondary wholesalers.
Ma Zhanshan, Director of the Public Security Bureau of Chengde City, Hebei Province: During the investigation, we found that this is not a case, but a major case involving a wide range, a large number of people and huge value, which integrates raw material fraud, finished product production and online sales, so we decided to solve the case with overall strength.
During the investigation of the case by Hebei police, the Ministry of Public Security received a notice from Hunan Provincial Public Security Bureau that Huaihua Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province was investigating a case of online sales of health food such as Renhe Yibao. After analysis, the two cases pointed to the same source of counterfeiting, and the Ministry of Public Security decided to combine the two cases for investigation. By tracing the clues of Cheng's logistics records one by one, Hebei police found out that Zhang and others in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province were the best providers of human and pancreatic treasures to Cheng. According to the criminal suspect Cheng, as early as 20 16, he began to approve Renhe Yibao from a first-class dealer who called himself "Mr. Zhang" in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province.
Reporter: How much did he sell you?
Criminal suspect Cheng: Sell me 1200 yuan one (box).
Reporter: One thing. Do you sell it?
Suspect cheng: I sold it, and the price ranged from 100 yuan.
According to the police investigation, Cheng bought 30 boxes of Renhe Yibao from Zhang on the Internet, and each box was equivalent to RMB around 40 yuan. Then in their own physical stores and e-commerce platforms, they are sold to consumers who don't know the truth at a price of about 125 yuan per box.
In the investigation, the reporter learned that Zhang, who supplied Cheng, was the key figure in this case of manufacturing and selling toxic and harmful health food. Zhang confessed that he participated in the drug fair held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province on 20 16, looking for opportunities to make money from it. After comparison, he chose the health food industry.
Suspect Zhang: At that time, I heard people say that OK (health food) was very profitable. I can make some money, and then I start to enter this business.
After a period of exploration, Zhang found that a health food named Renhe Yibao was popular in the market, so he bought samples from the Internet and found Liu Moumou, who was specially processed at the drug fair, and faked it after production.
Suspect Zhang: I don't understand the ingredients at all. I don't know how to operate and produce that piece. I haven't seen it before.
While arresting Zhang, the police also arrested Liu, who was processed for Zhang, and conducted a surprise search on his production dens.
Police: The so-called foundry is a fake den without production qualification.
Hebei Provincial Public Security Department Food and Drug Corps: When we arrived at Liu's drug-making den, the general feeling was four words: shocking. In his production, he put the production equipment in an abandoned farmhouse, and the finished products, including some raw materials, were piled up in dirty places such as toilets and chicken coops.
The reporter noticed that Liu's so-called processing factory not only did not have the qualification to produce health food, but also the production environment was extremely simple. There are no sanitary protection measures on site, and the only production equipment is the necessary aluminum-plastic packaging machine for this capsule. On the ground outside the yard and indoors, raw materials or finished products are piled up at random everywhere, which is completely a fake den.
Xiong Liang, Food and Drug Corps of Hebei Provincial Public Security Bureau: We saw that these glamorous health care products in the hands of the victims were produced in a black den without production conditions.
So, what are the ingredients in Renhe Yibao capsules produced by Liu under the banner of health food?
Criminal suspect Liu Moumou: It is western medicine plus rice bran powder. Others have given the method of purchasing (raw materials) accordingly.
Liu confessed that the contents of these capsules have nothing to do with the Chinese herbal medicines marked on the packaging boxes, but are actually rice bran powder mixed with the chemical drug phenformin. According to police statistics, besides Renhe Ipoh, there are 32 kinds of so-called health products such as seven grass sugar and insect insulin processed by Liu. In the investigation, the reporter found that fraudulent use of the approval number is the most commonly used deception in Liu's fraud process. Renhe Ipoh is using the approval number of Jindihua Paitang Schulke Capsule approved by Beijing Huaxia Kangqiao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in 2006; The real identity of Weishijianzi (1999)0296 marked with five sweets is Tang Zhong Jiangtang Pill of a diabetes research institute in Shijiazhuang.
Zhao Jiahong, Chengde City Public Security Bureau: This five-grain candy, these batch numbers are fake.
Making up the approval number out of thin air is another means of fraud by Liu and others. For example, the second generation of oral insulin of this gene seized by the police is marked with the approval number G20 130327. However, when the reporter logged into the official website of the former US Food and Drug Administration, he could not find this approval number at all.
Fake health products pretend to be Chinese herbal medicines.
The reporter noticed that all the products that Liu faked, without exception, claimed to be made of Chinese herbal medicines. However, according to the police investigation, the capsule components of 32 products with different packages are exactly the same as Renhe Ipoh.
Zhang Zhongyu, Food and Drug Detachment of Chengde Public Security Bureau: Actually, the ingredients are the same. They are rice bran powder and western medicine raw materials, then processed into capsules, and then according to your different needs. For example, if you need Renhe Ipoh, I'll give you a packet of Renhe Ipoh.
At this point in the investigation, an interest chain in the case of manufacturing and selling toxic and harmful health care products dominated by Zhang surfaced: Liu Moumou, a processing den, accepted Zhang's entrustment to sell toxic and harmful health care products such as "Renhe Yibao" with a counterfeit cost less than 5 yuan/box to Zhang at a price of about 12 yuan; Zhang then sold it to Cheng, a secondary dealer, at a wholesale price of about 40 yuan/box; After Cheng got the goods, he sold them to consumers who didn't know the truth at the price of 125 yuan/box on the e-commerce platform, and every link had huge profits.
The reporter noticed a detail in the investigation: because the profits of counterfeit health care products are amazing, some salespeople strongly encourage consumers to increase their consumption in order to obtain the greatest benefits, regardless of consumers' health in the sales process. This is an online chat record with an offline salesperson. It can be seen from the conversation that some consumers obviously feel uncomfortable after taking Tangyikang. Zhang told downline that this is because the dosage is too large, but downline thinks that the dosage is small, selling less makes money slowly, and will not let consumers reduce the dosage.
Chengde City Public Security Bureau Food and Drug Detachment: He (offline) sentenced him (Zhang). Under such circumstances, I only sold 30 pieces a month, so who I sold these things to was particularly angry at that time. They don't care about the health of these consumers at all. They do this business purely for profiteering.
Production dens, sales links, new problems surfaced.
The case seems to have come to an end, but new questions have emerged.
According to the reporter's investigation, as early as 20161kloc-0/,the production, sale and use of phenformin and its preparations have been banned in China. In order to find out the source of illegal raw materials and crack down on the chaos of adding illegal drugs to health food to the maximum extent, the police decided to start with Liu and continue the investigation.
Chen Xu, Deputy Head of Food and Drug Detachment of Chengde Public Security Bureau: The suspect confessed his raw materials and sources of western medicine. This is aimed at a king in Qingdao.
Liu confessed that Wang, who sold him raw materials, was a staff member of a chemical company in Qufu, Shandong. After locking Wang as an illegal API supplier, the police immediately went to Shandong to arrest four major suspects, including Wang and business owner Yan. The reporter learned in the investigation that a chemical company in Qufu is an enterprise that mainly produces and sells fine chemical products such as pharmaceutical intermediates, and does not have the qualification to produce APIs. The person in charge of the company claimed that they are engaged in fine chemical products and do not involve raw materials.
Criminal suspect Yan: The business scope includes fine chemical products, pharmaceutical intermediates and plant extracts. Our products are fine chemical products.
According to professionals, the so-called pharmaceutical intermediates are the precursors of APIs, that is, chemical products at various stages before they are made into APIs. Legally speaking, pharmaceutical intermediates do not belong to drugs, and ordinary chemical enterprises can produce them without obtaining pharmaceutical production qualifications; Relevant drug production licenses must be obtained before the production of APIs.
However, when the police sent 1.3 million kilograms of white crystalline powder seized from a chemical company in Qufu to the authoritative department for testing, they detected phenformin and metformin, which were characterized as chemicals rather than pharmaceutical intermediates. These products are treated as counterfeit drugs according to the Drug Administration Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) because they have not been approved by the drug regulatory authorities.
Zhang Zhongyu, deputy head of Food and Drug Administration of Chengde Public Security Bureau: They actually sell raw materials in the name of chemical intermediates.
According to the police investigation, during the period from 20 15 to 10, the person in charge of a chemical company in Qufu, Shandong Province organized personnel to illegally produce high-purity hypoglycemic raw materials such as phenformin hydrochloride and metformin hydrochloride, and illegally sold more than 50 tons of phenformin130 tons of metformin in the name of chemical products or pharmaceutical intermediates, thus producing toxic and harmful food or counterfeit drugs for Liu and others. These APIs are added to toxic and harmful health products such as Renhe Yibao through illegal production, sold to secondary distributors such as Cheng, and then distributed to retailers and consumers all over the country.
Xu, Director of the Sixth Division of the Public Security Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security: The significance of this case is that the upstream chemical product suppliers who illegally manufacture and sell toxic and harmful foods have been destroyed at the source for the first time, and the hidden rules that some chemical enterprises provide raw materials to black workshops and factories that manufacture and sell toxic and harmful foods under the guise of so-called chemical products and pharmaceutical intermediates have been uncovered.
Up to now, 76 criminal suspects have been arrested, 9 black dens 19 and 3 black factories have been destroyed in various provinces and cities across the country, and chemical plants 1 0 are suspected of illegal operation, and toxic and harmful health food15,000 boxes and western medicine raw materials13,000 kg have been seized, with a total case value of 65,438.
According to the reporter, the increasingly serious illegal and criminal activities in the field of health food have attracted the attention of relevant state departments.
Zhang, Deputy Director of the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security: According to the unified deployment of the Food Safety Office (the State Council), the Ministry of Public Security organized and directed public security organs across the country to crack down on illegal and criminal activities in the fields of food and health food. Since 2065438+July 2007, more than 4 100 criminal cases have been detected in various places, and more than 6,700 criminal suspects have been arrested, which has dealt a powerful blow and effectively protected the vital interests of the broad masses of the people.
Pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs are separated in one step. In this case, the illegal enterprise deliberately built a plank road and secretly changed its position. On the surface, it was to produce chemical products, but in fact it was to provide raw materials for the production of toxic and harmful foods. The loopholes and weak links of source control are exposed. How to strengthen supervision from the system and standardize its business behavior needs to improve relevant laws and policies, clarify departmental responsibilities and effectively plug loopholes.
The above content comes from: CCTV News.