Is it illegal to sell weight loss pills?

If the weight-loss drug sold is a regular and qualified product, it is not illegal and there is no need to bear responsibility for it; but if the weight-loss drug sold is a fake and inferior drug, it is illegal and criminal liability should be investigated according to law. If serious harm is caused to the human body, corresponding compensation liability must be borne.

Legal basis

Article 141 of the "People's Republic of China" and the National Criminal Law

Producing and selling counterfeit drugs, A person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined; if it seriously endangers human health or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined; if he causes death or there are other special circumstances, he shall be sentenced to three years' imprisonment. A term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years and a fine. Those who cause death or have other particularly serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, life imprisonment, or death, and shall also be fined or have their property confiscated. The term “counterfeit drugs” as mentioned in this article refers to drugs and non-drugs that are counterfeit drugs and treated as counterfeit drugs in accordance with the provisions of the "National Drug Administration Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "National Drug Administration Law".

Article 142 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Whoever produces or sells inferior drugs that seriously endangers human health shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also If a fine is not less than 50% and not more than twice the sales amount, and the consequences are particularly serious, the person shall be sentenced to not less than ten years in prison and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than twice the sales amount, or have property confiscated. Fines or confiscation of property. The term "substandard drugs" as mentioned in this article refers to the inferior drugs stipulated in the "Law of the People's Republic of China and the State on Drug Administration".