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    Guo Meimei and others were detained for selling prohibited diet foods!

    • Last Update: 2021-06-28
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Zhong Kai

     
    On March 18, Shanghai police reported that Pudong police successfully detected a case involving the production and sale of diet foods containing prohibited ingredients (sibutramine) and arrested 32 criminal suspects, including Guo Meimei
    .
     
    Among all kinds of health food frauds, fake health foods with added drugs are the most harmful
    .
    Among them, weight-loss products plus sibutramine, aphrodisiac and anti-fatigue products plus sildenafil, lipid-lowering products plus statins, and hypoglycemic products plus metformin, etc.
    , are all stubborn problems that the country has severely cracked down on and "resolutely never change
    .
    "
     
    Among various sales channels, online micro-businesses and offline marketing are often the most prone to problems, because they are relatively hidden and not easy to monitor
    .
    The offline channels mainly fiddle with the elderly, and the online channels harvest the young people whose hairline is shifting
    .
    A typical case recently reported by CCTV is the sale of weight-loss products added with sibutramine on Xianyu (a second-hand trading platform)
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    As a consumer, how to prevent being deceived when buying health food?
     
    1.
    Don't buy anything that claims to be outstanding
    .
    Health foods are not medicines, and they cannot play the same role as medicines
    .
    If the guarantee is effective, and it is really effective, there is a miraculous effect, and there is a quick effect, there must be a problem
    .
     
    2.
    Don't buy anything that claims to have no side effects
    .
    Only drugs can talk about efficacy and side effects.
    Health foods are only special foods.
    You buy health foods with anticipation of drugs.
    Who do you not cheat?
     
    3.
    Don't buy those who claim to be able to replace drugs and discontinue the drugs for chronic diseases
    .
    Health foods cannot replace medicines.
    If they can, they must be added medicines
    .

     
    4.
    Don’t buy anything that claims to be a secret recipe from the ancestors
    .
    There is no secret recipe for health food, and the ingredient list is clear, otherwise it will not be approved
    .
    If it is really a secret recipe, it means secretly adding a few banned western medicines
    .
     
    5.
    Don't buy any products that claim the US FDA (or other countries' official) certification
    .
    Foreign regulatory agencies will not endorse the product's efficacy, at most, it will not kill people
    .
    A large part of the warning letters issued by the US FDA are false propaganda of various health products (dietary supplements)
    .
     
    6.
    Don't buy anyone who claims "Nobel Prize", "Quantum", "Cell" and other unclear feelings
    .
    Health food does not have many high-tech ingredients, and is not as high as many ordinary foods.
    To calm you with tall terms is nothing more than trying to cheat more money
    .

     
    7.
    Domestic health foods have formal approval documents, which can be checked on the website of the State Administration for Market Regulation
    .
    If you are too lazy to check, it will be safer to buy well-known brand products on formal supermarkets and online platforms
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