CCTV News:Drugs are related to people’s health, and the quality of drugs must be guaranteed. However, the reporter recently found in an interview in Bozhou, Anhui Province, which is known as the "drug capital", that there is still adulteration and selling fakes in the circulation of Chinese herbal medicines.
In order to reduce the cost, Bozhou Chinese herbal medicine market is located in Bozhou Economic Development Zone, which is the largest Chinese herbal medicine distribution center in China. Starting at six o’clock every morning, it is crowded with merchants who come to trade. Raspberry is a common Chinese medicine, and the ancient prescription is mostly used for tonifying kidney and stopping bleeding. The reporter’s investigation found that the price of raspberries in the market is nearly 20 times different from 10 yuan to 200 yuan a kilogram. The drug dealers in the market told us that if we want to reduce the cost, we should mix 40 yuan or 50 yuan or even a few dollars a kilogram of defective products and fakes into raspberries with more than 200 yuan.
China’s Pharmacopoeia clearly stipulates that only Rubus palmatum in East China has legal efficacy, and the bargains that reporters saw in the market were identified as raspberries and raspberries, which were not medicinal materials at all.
In order to reduce the cost, the reporter learned that raspberries, raspberries and the dregs screened from raspberries in the market are sold in large quantities, and they are often sold out of stock, and the efficacy can hardly be guaranteed. The drug dealer said that these things could not be sold in the market. After communication, the boss agreed to take us to her house to see those sought-after drug foams.
At the drug dealer’s home, the reporter heard that there were raspberries that were cheaper than mozi. In order to see this fake, the reporter found several drug dealer bosses according to the market drug dealer’s address book. Finally, through the recommendation of the industry, we found this kind of "raspberry" that was cheaper than dregs near Bozhou Railway Station.
In layman’s view, this cheaper raspberry is much better than those before, and they are all one by one, but experts say that this kind of thing is called raspberry.
It is by no means a market case for Chinese herbal medicines to be genuine.
Medicine is a cure, which can be said to be a matter of human life. Whether it is decoction pieces or Chinese patent medicine, the loss of efficacy and loss of efficacy will delay the illness, and it can’t be cheap and inferior like ordinary commodities. The reporter found in an interview in Bozhou that the problematic Chinese medicines in the whole market are far more than raspberries.
In Bozhou Chinese herbal medicine market, most of the stalls are full of granules and good quality medicinal materials. When buyers need to bargain wholesale, many merchants will take their customers home to see the big goods, and the prices of these big goods are quite affordable. The Chinese herbal medicine Vitex negundo has the effects of lowering blood pressure, relieving pain and diminishing inflammation. The better price in the market is more than 200 yuan per kilogram, while the price of large sales orders by drug dealers is only 20 yuan per kilogram.
Drugs entering pharmaceutical factories generally have to undergo efficacy testing and issue samples and certificates. How do they do it with such a large sales volume of cheap and inferior medicinal materials?
Drug dealers say that at present, the procurement and testing of various pharmaceutical companies are carried out by their own people, and the pharmaceutical companies buy their own self-inspection, and the drug supervision department only conducts random inspections on some samples of certain drugs. A buyer in a pharmaceutical factory revealed the internal rules of purchasing to us.
Drug purchaser: "Like ordinary small factories, they are all private small factories. It is the boss’s intention to buy poor quality medicinal materials. Our raw materials are inspected by ourselves when they come in, and they are also inspected by ourselves when they leave the factory. The national regulatory authorities only conduct random inspections."
In addition to raspberries and Vitex negundo, in Compendium of Materia Medica, Rhizoma Corydalis, which has the effects of promoting blood circulation, benefiting qi and relieving pain, is simply a processed fake medicine in the hands of some drug dealers. In an alley in Houli Village of Bozhou Railway Station, a merchant specializes in making fake yuanhu, and the fake raw material is yam ribs. The reporter also found that some drug dealers will also recycle the dregs from pharmaceutical factories after extracting the effective components and sell them as medicinal materials.
Forgery, concealment, renovation, market supervision must be strengthened
The reporter learned that the heads of 17 Chinese herbal medicine professional markets in China have signed a "military order" to fully organize the rectification of the Chinese herbal medicine market. It can be said that after these years, most Chinese herbal medicines in the circulation field are still good and reliable. However, adulteration and fraud still exist in some markets, and the supervision methods need to be upgraded urgently.
The reporter made an unannounced visit to Bozhou for five days. The most direct clue is that this list records the contact information of major drug dealers and the varieties of medicinal materials. Among the fifteen drug dealers asked by the reporter, nearly ten kinds of medicinal materials whose prices are obviously lower than the market price basically have quality problems.
Xiao Luwei, executive director of the Chinese Medicine Association: "The key in the industry is supervision, and the key to supervision is punishment. Then there is also a problem of high quality and good price. High quality and good price is a very important thing. If your price is low, then everyone will cut corners. "
Chinese herbal medicines are not ordinary commodities and foods, and the source supervision is not in place. They should be supervised in advance and become supervised afterwards. Once the inferior and inferior Chinese herbal medicines enter the market, they will not be changed in the production process of Chinese patent medicines, but will eventually affect the efficacy and safety of patients in clinical application. In the past two years, there have been many problems with Chinese herbal pieces reported in various places, such as forsythia suspensa, Radix Isatidis and so on, and there are many well-known pharmaceutical companies that have problems.
Professor Liu Junhai of Renmin University Law School.: "The lag of supervision, the blind spot of supervision and the vacuum zone of supervision, I call it the failure of drug safety supervision. The drug safety supervision system should be 24 hours a day, 360 degrees, cross-market, cross-region, cross-department and cross-industry."
Liu Junhai said that in addition to supervision, the market pricing of Chinese herbal medicines should also be reformed. Bidding and purchasing should not be completely low, but high quality and good price should be achieved. From pricing to supervision, comprehensive policy.
Professor Liu Junhai of Renmin University Law School.: "The former State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the former State Food and Drug Administration, and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine have all been formed into a unified State Administration of Market Supervision. Therefore, if there are loopholes in the supervision of the railway police in the past three carriages, it should be said that we have begun to work hard on a broad road of unified supervision and coordinated supervision from the institutional setup."
