China News Service, April 12 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) Shanghai Pudong police disclosed a case of manufacturing and selling toxic and harmful food on the 12th.

It is reported that the case is a related case involving "Internet celebrity" Guo XX previously disclosed by the Shanghai police.

  After several months of meticulous investigation, the Economic Investigation Detachment of the Pudong Public Security Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, together with the Waigaoqiao Public Security Office and relevant police stations, carried out a unified network collection operation in many provinces and places in China, and successively arrested suspected production and sales of toxic and harmful weight loss products. The health food suspects were 75 people including Zeng Moumou, Zhou Moumou, Guo Moumou.

The police stated that the suspects involved in the case were involved in the production and sale of toxic and harmful foods by the police in accordance with the law to take compulsory measures.

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  The police destroyed 3 production sites and 24 sales sites. More than 65,000 toxic and harmful weight-loss health foods, about 34 kilograms of raw materials, 3 production equipment, and more than 20,000 outer packagings were seized on the spot. The amount involved amounted to more than 50 million yuan (RMB) , The same below).

  With the improvement of living standards, many people have higher requirements for their appearance.

Among them, some people choose to maintain their "perfect body" by eating weight-loss health foods.

The lawbreakers saw the "business opportunity" inside, and made huge profits by producing and selling toxic and harmful weight-loss health foods.

The police seized more than 65,000 pieces of toxic and harmful weight-loss health food and about 34 kilograms of raw materials.

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  In December 2020, Pudong police received a clue: Someone was selling fake weight-loss drugs online.

The police tracked down and found that this weight loss pill was added with sibutramine, a prohibited ingredient, and mixed with starch and pigments to make candies or capsules.

The drug's production dens are located in Sichuan, Yunnan and Shandong, and then advertised on the Internet to recruit agents, mainly for sales in WeChat Moments.

According to the police, the production cost of this medicine is only a few cents per capsule, and the selling price of the terminal agent is 69 yuan per capsule.

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  Sibutramine was included in the "List of Substances That May Be Added Illegally in Health Foods (First Batch)" issued by the State Food and Drug Administration in 2012.

"This kind of medicine is very harmful to people. It can cause loss of appetite, dizziness, nausea and other consequences, and in serious cases can lead to death." The police said.

The police seized 3 sets of production equipment and more than 20,000 pieces of outer packaging at the scene, involving a total of more than 50 million yuan.

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  According to Wang Changzhuo, deputy head of the Food, Medicine and Environmental Knowledge Brigade of the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, the production cost of this medicine is only a few cents per capsule, and the terminal agent sells it at 69 yuan per capsule, which is very profitable.

The suspect Guo Moumou is one of the dealers.

The police said that two main suspects have been approved for arrest.

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  The police stated that all participants in this criminal gang knew that the weight-loss drug contained sibutramine, which was a prohibited ingredient, for illegal profit and act against the wind.

  The police stated that the suspects involved in the case were involved in the production and sale of toxic and harmful foods by the police in accordance with the law to take compulsory measures; two main suspects have been approved for arrest.

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