Investigation on Life Experience of Tangleshu Capsule
September 2005 65438+September 2005 China Consumer News.
A kind of health food with poor sales volume has become a "high-tech product" that sells well all over the country after some approval and transfer transactions. A few days ago, with a notice from the Ministry of Health, the myth of treating diabetes promoted by a health care product named Tang was broken. What kind of product is this? How did it create a market miracle? Our reporter conducted an investigation on this.
Exposure; expose
Don is suspected of adding drugs.
On the morning of September 6, Mrs. Wang, who lives in Qinye Community, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, picked up three capsules of "Lifelong Sugar Leshu" as usual. Suddenly, an article in the local newspaper caught her attention. It turned out that the Ministry of Health issued an urgent notice to immediately suspend the production and sale of seven kinds of health foods for regulating blood sugar, and Tang was one of them. It is reported that if patients take such health care products for a long time, they are prone to palpitation and impaired liver and kidney function. At this time, Mrs. Wang has been eating for half a year.
Mrs. Wang decided to ask the dealer to explain. In the afternoon, when she arrived at Tang's distribution point, she found the door closed and the door was crowded with diabetics. In her conversation with everyone, Mrs. Wang found that nearly 2000 people in the local area had the same experience as herself. At the beginning, the merchant promised "no drop in blood sugar, full refund" and demanded "stop using other drugs". After taking it, Mrs. Wang's blood sugar dropped significantly, but at the same time she had symptoms such as palpitation and fatigue. But she didn't associate these symptoms with Tang. She bought Tang's a few days ago for more than 3,000 yuan.
On September 5th, an urgent notice from the Ministry of Health surprised many Tang users. On September 6, in Wuwei City, Gansu Province, when many patients who bought Tang Leshu returned their compensation to the dealer, they found that the distribution point was empty. In Hefei, Anhui Province, Tang's dealer's door is closed and consumers can't claim.
At the same time, health, drug supervision and other law enforcement departments all over the country also took action to inspect seven kinds of health foods suspected of adding chemicals, including Tang.
deformed
Buying and selling approval, borrowing chickens to lay eggs
What kind of product is Tang? The reporter inquired about the "life experience" of the product in many ways.
The reporter logged on the website of the Ministry of Health and found that on August 27th, 2002, Tang Leshu was approved as a health food by the Ministry of Health. The product name is Zhao Kang Tangleshu Capsule, the approval number is Wei Shi Jian Zi (2002) No.0546, and the manufacturer is Tangshan Longshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Longshan Pharmaceutical).
In mid-2003, a message appeared on the website of Longshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., "Looking for cooperative development partners of new products and health food". According to the data, Longshan Pharmaceutical is looking for opportunities to develop new products in cooperation with the whole country, and the agent can buy out the exclusive franchise of the whole country by investing 30,000-50,000 yuan. The health food Tangleshu Capsule appears in the product catalogue.
On September 14, the reporter interviewed Lan, the chairman of Tangshan Longshan Pharmaceutical. He told reporters on the phone that after the information was released, Beijing Tangkang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tangkang Company) sent people to discuss cooperation with them. "We think that Tang's sales situation was very bad at that time, so it is better to transfer it at one time." According to Lan's memory, around the end of 2003, Longshan Pharmaceutical signed a one-time exclusive transfer contract with Tangkang Company, and Tangkang Company paid several hundred thousand yuan to Longshan Pharmaceutical, and Longshan Pharmaceutical transferred all Tang's technology, management rights and health food approval certificates to Tangkang Company.
On March 4, 2004, the State Food and Drug Administration of the United States approved the transfer application of both parties, and the product was renamed as Yisheng brand Tangleshu Capsule, and Longshan Pharmaceutical became the entrusted processing unit of Tangkang Company. The reporter called Tangkang Company many times to ask whether the company has its own production workshop and where the products are processed and produced. Tangkang company has always refused to answer.
sell
Beautiful lies create a selling effect.
Shortly after the cooperation between Tangkang Company and Longshan Pharmaceutical Company, Yisheng brand Tangleshu Capsule was listed, and Tang's advertisement appeared in many media.
"Yisheng brand Tangleshu capsule can effectively eliminate insulin resistance, which was developed by the company after inviting many medical experts in the capital for four years."
"Plants can lower blood sugar for 6 days, which is safe and non-toxic."
"Eliminate insulin resistance and solve the problem of diabetes."
"Tang is the first choice to eliminate insulin resistance."
"Diabetic patients don't take injections or medicine, and they completely get rid of diabetes."
"China Health Care International Exchange Promotion Association recommended by the Professional Committee of Middle-aged and Elderly Health Care."
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At the same time, Tang's marketing activities are booming. In the name of "public welfare marketing", carry out free blood pressure measurement and blood sugar measurement activities to mobilize patients to buy; Vendors all over the country are engaged in "free trial, invalid refund" promotion activities. According to the information published on its website, Tangkang Company has set up a large number of sales points in more than 20 provinces and cities.
In an interview with this reporter, the Secretary-General of the Middle-aged and Elderly Health Care Professional Committee of China Medical Care Association for the Promotion of International Exchanges pointed out, "The advertisement said that China Medical Association participated in the large-scale selection of insulin resistance products conducted by the World Health Organization in 62 countries around the world, and Tang was the first choice. This is out of nothing. " Yang Huiting said that regarding the practices of Tangkang Company, the Medical Association has repeatedly issued solemn statements, asking them to stop advertising in the name of the Medical Association.
Professor Qian, chairman of the Diabetes Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, told this reporter that diabetes is a chronic disease, and patients need lifelong medication to keep their blood sugar stable. It's a lie to say that you don't have to take medicine for life. He said that health food can never replace drugs for treating diabetes. Some health products claim to be able to lower blood sugar quickly, and it is likely that western medicine ingredients have been added to lower blood sugar.
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Industry management cleans up "ghost products"
"The problems in Tangleshu Capsule have made people realize that there are regulatory loopholes in technology transfer, there is no strict supervision on the transfer behavior, and even there are no strict restrictions on the production conditions of the transferee, which provides an opportunity for irregular production and operation behavior. Some enterprises even bought the approval documents and then stole the formula and illegally added chemicals, which became a major hidden danger threatening food safety. " An expert on health care products who asked not to be named said in an interview with reporters.
According to this expert, in order to standardize the health care products market, China began to implement the examination and approval system for health care products in the 1990s, and the production of health food must obtain the approval number. In 2003, the examination and approval function of health products was transferred from the Ministry of Health to the State Food and Drug Administration. During this period, the national examination and approval management of health food is brewing major reforms, and the threshold for examination and approval of health food will be raised. As a result, a large number of idle approval documents (documents that have not been produced or are in poor operating condition after approval) have become a useful resource, and the trading behavior formed around approval documents has been relatively active.
How many batches of such health care products are currently idle on the market? In May this year, a survey report released by china health care association showed that as of June 30, 2004, the state had approved 6,009 kinds of health foods from 3,829 enterprises, of which only 19 17 products were listed, and most of them did not appear in the circulation channels. Zhu, Secretary-General of china health care association, pointed out that most of these unlisted health foods are "ghost products" with approval numbers but no production and operation, reflecting the serious phenomenon of low-level repeated declaration in the health care industry.
In July this year, the State Food and Drug Administration of the United States promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Health Food Registration, which made stricter provisions on the transfer of approval documents-the domestic health food production enterprises that accept the transfer must be enterprises that have obtained the health license for health food according to law and meet the Quality Management Standards for Health Food Production. It is stipulated that the validity period of the health food approval certificate is 5 years, and a review system is implemented. This means that health products have a regular monitoring mechanism, health food approval will end the "lifelong system", and some dormant "ghost products" will withdraw from the market.
In August this year, Shao, director of the State, said at the national symposium on food and drug supervision and management that the state will continue to comprehensively manage health food, strictly examine and approve the health food system, and improve the market access standards for health food.
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Don's investigation everywhere.
■ In March, the Food and Drug Administration of Longyou County, Zhejiang Province announced that the hypoglycemic drug gliclazide was illegally added to the contents of Tangleshu Capsule. The identification of the samples showed that gliclazide was illegally added to the contents of Tangleshu capsules produced by Beijing Tangkang Company, and each capsule contained gliclazide 12.9mg.
■ On April 17, 2007, Nanchang Administration for Industry and Commerce issued an illegal advertisement warning 1 2005, the advertisement of Tangleshu capsule health food was investigated for exaggerating the function of the product and claiming that it had therapeutic effect on diabetes.
■ On April 18, Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce issued the warning of illegal advertisementsNo. 1, and 20 illegal advertisements were investigated, among which Tangleshu Capsule was on the list.
■ On September 5, after Tangleshu Capsule was notified by the Ministry of Health for allegedly adding chemicals, law enforcement officers of health and drug supervision all over the country jointly acted and investigated a large number of Tangleshu Capsules. At present, the investigation of Tangleshu Capsule is still in progress.