Ensure the safety of traditional Chinese medicine by severe punishment

Recently, the State Food and drug administration went to five large-scale Chinese herbal medicine markets to investigate the report shows that Chinese herbal medicine has become a serious disaster area of poison, fake and shoddy, these markets generally have the phenomena of fake and shoddy, adulteration, illegal operation, illegal processing, etc., and its black industry chain is threatening the drug safety of thousands of households As early as the 1990s, the regulatory authorities determined to close more than 100 markets that could not meet the requirements, and only 17 large Chinese herbal medicine markets were retained Wu Zhen, deputy director of the State Food and drug administration, said that in view of the difficulty of management, there has not been a new batch of Chinese herbal medicine market in more than 20 years, and it will not be approved again in the future Unfortunately, even though the market of traditional Chinese medicine has been greatly compressed, which brings convenience to local management, the current chaos is still shocking: shoddy, fake, adulterated, dyeing and weight gain In some places, practices are outrageous In Bozhou, Anhui Province, weight-added cement has been found in the price of some Hailong and Haima In addition, dozens of Chinese herbal medicines have been abused or fumigated with excessive sulfur price However, the price of sulfur is toxic and taboo in medical books In essence, the chaos of these medicine markets is the murder of money There are three reasons for its flooding First of all, it is difficult to manage and supervise It is difficult to form a unified regulatory model for traditional Chinese medicine due to the lack of standards and regional differences In particular, some local herbal medicine markets bring taxes and GDP to the government There is a phenomenon of local protectionism The problem that local governments are unwilling or unable to manage is more prominent The second is the pursuit of profit and immortality According to the interview records of the investigation team with the traders during the secret visit, some of the traders were outspoken and made fake and inferior medicines to "sell more money" The income of drug dealers' illegal crimes does not match with their corresponding punishment, which makes a large number of drug dealers take the risk to make and sell adulterated and toxic drugs that are harmful to the country and the people Third, hospitals, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies become accomplices in improper drug procurement They either reduce costs, or lack the ability to identify, or for personal profits, and finally let these fake, poisonous and shoddy medicines enter thousands of households through them There is a market for fake and inferior medicinal materials, which means there is a demand If they insist on standard procurement and distinguish carefully, how can they make it possible for "inferior medicine expelling good medicine" become a reality Over the years, we have had a headache about food safety, especially dairy product safety, and lack of confidence in domestic milk powder Recently, the State Food and Drug Administration will try out the supervision mode of selling infant formula milk powder in drugstores However, if the traditional Chinese medicine sold by drugstores comes from these chaotic places, then the supervision mode of milk powder may break the psychological bottom line of the public again In our opinion, the quality of food, medicine and wherever they are produced and sold must be guaranteed Nowadays, the chaos in the field of traditional Chinese medicine is so much more disturbing than some exposed food safety incidents, so the investigation and punishment of it can only rely on severe punishment On the one hand, severe punishment is for regulators, including industry and local regulators If they neglect their duties, embezzle and take bribes, and act as the umbrella of criminal forces, then only strict inspection and severe punishment can rebuild the order of the drug market In 2007, Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of the State Food and drug administration, was sentenced to death for bribery and dereliction of duty Unfortunately, six years after his death, neither food safety nor drug safety has reached the level of reassurance for the public, but it has become increasingly fierce This only shows that the deterrent power of killing a Zheng Xiaoyu is not enough On the other hand, severe punishment means that for drug manufacturers, whether they are producers, sellers or operators, they must face the strict supervision of the legal network In China's criminal law, there are charges against "producing and selling fake drugs" and "producing and selling inferior drugs" The former is sentenced to death at most, while the latter is sentenced to life imprisonment at most Now some "fake drugs" and "inferior drugs" have become "poisons" because of people's greed, which seriously endangers public security and is close to the "crime of putting in dangerous goods" Now the investigation finds that five secret places are a mess, and it's hard to guarantee that the other 12 markets won't be like this Nowadays, the situation of food safety and drug safety is so severe that it is impossible to contain the chaos without serious codes Previously, officials of the State Food and Drug Administration once said that for the illegal crimes in the field of food, "those who are willing to kill for money should be ruined and their heads should fall on the ground" Then, in the field of medicine, we should also refer to the procedures, so that the criminals who are reckless in manufacturing and selling inferior drugs, fake drugs and poisons can redeem themselves at the cost of their lives.