Recently, the Shanghai Railway Transport Procuratorate (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Railway Procuratorate") filed a centralized public prosecution against 13 people including Zhou Moumou and Guo Moumou for selling toxic and harmful food.
After review: Starting from September 2020, Zhou Moumou will wholesale weight loss candy produced by the manufacturer Zeng Moumou and others to lower-level sales agents Zhao Mou, Li Mou and others, and Zhao Mou and others will sell them to all parts of the country through WeChat and other channels.
In January 2021, Zhao developed Guo XX for sales, and Guo XX posted advertisements through WeChat and Weibo to sell weight-loss candy.
Sibutramine, which is banned by the state, was detected in the diet sugars in this series of cases.
Sibutramine is a "toxic and harmful non-food raw material." The illegal production and sale of weight-loss candies added with sibutramine constitutes the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful foods in accordance with the law.
The Paper reporter learned from the procuratorial organ that Guo Moumou is Guo Meimei.
Sibutramine is a central nervous system depressant, which can cause side effects such as increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, anorexia, insomnia, and abnormal liver function.
According to relevant laws and regulations, sibutramine is a "toxic and harmful non-food raw material", and the illegal production and sale of weight loss candies added with sibutramine constitutes the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful foods in accordance with the law.
Criminals seize the psychological characteristics of some beauty-lovers who want to lose weight quickly, and mass-produce and sell weight-loss products such as coffee and candies that contain toxic and harmful ingredients.
This kind of weight-loss products with illegal addition of toxic and harmful ingredients is cheap to make. A weight-loss candy costs only a few cents. After several changes of hands and layers of packaging, it can appear in the form of various high-end weight-loss products, and each one sells for tens of yuan. .
Under the temptation of hundreds of times high profits, many people take risks and sell online through the development of offline agents and retail.
Since January 1, 2018, the Shanghai Railway Inspection Institute has centralized jurisdiction over Shanghai’s first-instance criminal cases of endangering food and drug safety, combined with the characteristics of centralized jurisdiction over food and drug cases, established a food and drug professional case handling team, specializing in the review, arrest and review of food and drug cases Prosecution, litigation supervision, comprehensive management and other work, this is currently the only grass-roots professional case handling team in the country that has centralized jurisdiction over food and drug cases.
Since the centralized jurisdiction, the food and drug specialized case handling team of the Shanghai Railway Inspection Institute has handled 90 such cases of producing and selling toxic and harmful weight-loss products with 122 people. Among them, Han XX was selected the highest in the case of producing and selling toxic and harmful weight-loss coffee. Typical cases of special actions issued by the inspection unit and relevant departments to implement the "four most stringent" requirements for food and drug safety.
While handling the case, the case-handling team took the initiative to strengthen research, promote the unification of evidence specifications in such cases, formed guidelines for the production and sale of toxic and harmful food crime evidence, and strengthened coordination and linkage with public security agencies and administrative agencies to form a joint force to ensure similar cases Accurately and effectively crack down; and analyze the characteristics and causes of such toxic and harmful weight-loss products in a timely manner, and actively carry out comprehensive management in response to the sales of such toxic and harmful weight-loss products through online platforms. Help stop leaks and establish systems, help upgrade the prevention and control model of online platforms, promote comprehensive food safety management and crime prevention publicity, and protect online food safety.
The Paper, Senior Reporter Li Jing