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Botox, which is widely used for cosmetic and medical purposes, is a medicine made by diluting the neurotoxin botulinum bacteria.

Because it is a highly toxic substance, it has been designated as a prescription drug, but the beetroot was distributed through illegal channels.



Reporter Jang Hoon-kyung traced the situation.



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white icebox is piled up in front of an office in Songpa-gu, Seoul.



It is Botox of H Company, the No. 1 market share in the domestic market.



Why is Botox in a place that is not even a hospital or medical wholesaler?



As a result of the confirmation, the office operator was Mr. A, a Chinese.



A Chinese seller who promotes selling genuine Botox on his personal profile has indicated his intent to purchase.



When asked if I can get it in Korea, he tells me to come to Daerim-dong, Seoul.



I went there myself.



[Illegal Botox distributors: ((H company Botox) 300 and (D pharmaceutical company Botox) 200 (I came to get it.)) Those on the desk over there, three boxes (take it.)] Only



pharmaceutical companies that can handle Botox There are only three places: a wholesaler of medicines, and a hospital that is used directly for patients. How did the Chinese, who are neither wholesalers nor doctors, obtain Botox?



When I asked the sellers, they confessed that they would take an appointment at the hospital.



Industry officials also pointed to a domestic hospital as a hotbed for illegal distribution, and the same answer comes back when they check the drug serial number and ask the Ministry of Health and Welfare.



[Ministry of Health and Welfare Official: It is said that the pharmaceutical company went straight to the hospital.

It is not possible to confirm how the medical institution used it.] Not only



unqualified Chinese Koreans but also hospitals selling Botox without using it for patient treatments violates the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law clearly. .