District court tries 26 cases of false marketing

Source:Global Times Published: 2013-3-12 23:38:01

Qingpu District People's Court has tried 26 cases involving medicine, food or other products containing substitute or phony ingredients, the court said Tuesday.

The products were usually made in the area between urban and rural areas, including factories, villas and warehouses, which made them difficult for the police to track, according to a court press release.

The court sentenced one defendant to five months in prison and fined her 2,000 yuan ($322) for selling medicine that didn't contain the same ingredients that it advertised.

The defendant, surnamed Wu, was the proprietor of an adult store where she sold popular medicine without a proper business license.

She claimed that the medicine contained Chinese ginseng and deer antler and could cure impotence. Police later found it contained sildenafil citrate, which is sold under the name Viagra, a drug that requires a specific license to sell, according to the court.

She was sentenced to five years in prison with a reprieve of five months.

The court said 17 of the 26 cases involved medicine.

In another case, the court sentenced a man surnamed Wang to one year in prison for selling duck meat on the street that he claimed was roasted mutton. He was also fined 60,000 yuan. Wang employed several workers to add food additives in the duck so that it tasted like mutton.

He had made a profit of 118,000 yuan by the time he was caught in October 2011.

Police confiscated 19,000 yuan worth of the fake mutton at the scene.

Global Times

 



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