China News Service, December 9th. According to the WeChat public account of the State Administration for Market Regulation, recently, in response to the price fluctuations of some drugs and other epidemic-related materials, the State Administration for Market Regulation focused on the e-commerce platform and conducted a centralized search for clues about price gouging. , Organize the market supervision departments of key provinces to check the specific clues one by one.
The online pharmacy that was initially found to be suspected of driving up prices has been transferred to the relevant provincial market supervision department for investigation and investigation.
With the gradual refinement and optimization of local epidemic prevention policies, some hot-selling drugs such as Lianhua Qingwen are temporarily in short supply, and some unscrupulous operators have taken the opportunity to hype and drive up prices.
Based on previous clues, the General Administration of Market Supervision extracted the sales data of Lianhua Qingwen from several pharmacies since September from multiple platforms, and organized relevant provincial market supervision departments to verify the purchase ledger.
The inspection found that some operators began to increase sales prices significantly in early December with little change in procurement costs.
For example, an online pharmacy sells Lianhua Qingwen Granules 6g*10 bags/box, the purchase price in November is 23.5-32 yuan/box, and the sales price is 26.8-38 yuan/box, but it has risen rapidly since the beginning of December, until December 5 Daily rise to 99 yuan / box.
An online pharmacy sells Lianhua Qingwen Capsules 0.35g*24 capsules/box, the purchase price in November is 11.5-12.5 yuan/box, and the sales price is 18.9-33.1 yuan/box.
At the beginning of December, the purchase price was 14.5-22.5 yuan/box, and the sales price rose rapidly from 41.9 yuan/box to 88.1 yuan/box.
The above-mentioned pharmacies have substantially increased their sales prices without a significant increase in costs, or the increase in prices has been significantly higher than the increase in costs despite the increase in costs, which has been suspected of constituting price gouging.
In the next step, the State Administration for Market Regulation will pay close attention to the price trend of drugs and other epidemic-related materials, guide local market supervision departments to crack down on illegal acts such as hoarding and price gouging, expose typical cases in a timely manner, and effectively maintain the market price order of epidemic-related materials.