Legal analysis
It depends. It is not illegal to sell diet pills produced by regular manufacturers, but if they are not produced by regular manufacturers or are counterfeit and shoddy drugs, they will be sentenced, which involves two kinds of charges. Whoever produces or sells counterfeit drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; Whoever causes serious harm to human health or has other serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Therefore, if the act constitutes a crime, and the weight-loss drugs sold are counterfeit drugs by passing off fake products, shoddy products or substandard products as qualified products, according to relevant laws and regulations, "producers and sellers who adulterate their products and make fakes constitute economic crimes may also be fined. Be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and concurrently or exclusively be fined not less than 50% but not more than 2 times the sales amount; Whoever sells more than 200,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than two years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined not less than 50% but not more than two times the sales amount.
legal ground
Article 141 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; Whoever causes serious harm to human health or has other serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and fined; Whoever causes death or has other particularly serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death, and shall also be fined or confiscated. Drug addicts who knowingly provide counterfeit drugs to others for use shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. The term "counterfeit drugs" as mentioned in this article refers to drugs and non-drugs that belong to counterfeit drugs and are treated as counterfeit drugs according to the provisions of the Drug Administration Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).