Because his leg itches, Xiao Zhang bought a bottle of ointment named "Zhuang Ai Bai Fu Kang" on the recommendation of a pharmacy salesman in China Community, and it didn't have any effect after application. Xiao Zhang began to study this tube of ointment. I don't know. It turns out that this ointment marked "sterilization, itching relief and anti-inflammation" is actually a health care product. Strangely, the approval number is "Yu Yong Chinese Characters", but the production address is in Guangzhou.
Xiao Zhang said that he bought this box of ointment at the cost of 15 yuan under the vigorous promotion of the drugstore, but he didn't expect it to be a "health care" medicine. This box of "Baifukang" ointment bought by Xiao Zhang is beautifully packaged, with "new laser code anti-counterfeiting packaging" and marked with striking Chinese characters "national patent, counterfeiting will be investigated", and the national patent number is also printed at the end of the outer packaging.
In the product description, there are also words such as "in accordance with the doctor's advice", purchased and used under the guidance of pharmacists, "for skin allergy and itching diseases". Xiao Zhang said that this is a kind of medicine, no matter from the outer packaging or the description of curative effect. However, in the package and instructions, the batch number of this ointment is Yu Wei Jian Yong Zi [2003] No.0320.
Suspected of being cheated into buying fake drugs, Xiao Zhang Baidu searched for "Zhuang Ai Bai Fu Kang", but I didn't expect the news information of "fake drugs" to jump out first on the page. For example, as early as 2007, Jiangxi media disclosed the news that the US Food and Drug Administration in Nanchang identified "Zhuang Ai Bai Fu Kang" as a counterfeit drug.
Is it fake medicine after all?
In the end, Xiao Zhang telephoned the US Food and Drug Administration in Baoding about whether the "Zhuang Ai Bai Fu Kang" he bought was fake. The staff of the Food and Drug Administration told him that because drugs were labeled as health care products, many pharmaceutical manufacturers exaggerated the curative effect, and the salesmen of pharmacies also exaggerated the curative effect, which made consumers think it was a therapeutic drug, but this was not the case. They have no way to investigate the situation.
The words "national patents and counterfeiting will be investigated" printed in big letters on the box also aroused Xiao Zhang's suspicion. He specially dialed the telephone number of China National Intellectual Property Administration. The staff told him that the "patent number" printed on the outer packaging and instructions was a design patent, not a drug patent.
After listening to the introduction of the staff in China National Intellectual Property Administration, Xiao Zhang said that he was stunned by the suspected fraud of the merchants. "The so-called' patent number' is easy to mislead consumers. At first glance, everyone will believe that this is a patent for drugs. How can I think that this is actually a design patent? This is too deceptive. "
Poor supervision, no complaints.
Pharmacies sell "Jianzihao" as drugs, and related manufacturers exaggerate publicity and other issues. Xiao Zhang's experience is by no means a case. How can the relevant departments supervise to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of patients and consumers? The reporter asked Baoding US Food and Drug Administration, Health Bureau, Health Supervision Office and other departments, but they did not get a definite answer.
The reporter first dialed the telephone number of the office of the US Food and Drug Administration in Baoding. A staff member told reporters that drug supervision originally belonged to the Municipal Health Bureau. Since the institutional reform, the supervision function of the Food and Drug Administration has not been replaced. He suggested that the reporter ask Baoding Municipal Health Bureau.
However, after listening to the reporter's description, the staff of Baoding Health Bureau's office asked the reporter to contact the Medical Administration Department. However, the medical and political staff said that they only targeted at medical disputes, mainly targeting medical units. At their suggestion, the reporter turned to Baoding Health Supervision Institute, but the reporter got the answer here that they mainly cracked down on illegal medical practice, and the supervision of drugs and health care products had to find the Food and Drug Administration.
The reporter looked for a circle and returned to the original point, and did not find an answer that satisfied consumers. And Xiao only admits that he is unlucky. He said that thanks to his itchy skin, if he is very ill, there is really no reason to go.
Xiao Zhang expressed the hope that his experience can attract the attention of relevant departments, check and rectify the drug market, and avoid more consumers being deceived.