This is destined to be a tragedy. In March this year, 4-year-old Tingting (a pseudonym) died forever in the emergency room of a children's Hospital in Jiangsu. The local police detected a chemical component sibutramine in the child's liver, heart blood, urine, venous blood and gastric lavage. According to experts, cetrobamine is a drug that inhibits appetite in the central nervous system. Although it has a certain weight loss effect, it may cause side effects such as hypertension and accelerated heart rate. In 2010, because sibutramine would increase serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risks, relevant departments stopped the production, sales and use of sibutramine preparations and APIs in China, and the drugs that have been sold on the market shall be recalled and destroyed by the manufacturer. However, sibutramine began to gradually enter the black market, and bad businesses bought sibutramine and "assembled" it into weight-loss drugs for sale. Last month, online celebrity Guo Meimei was sentenced for selling "weight loss candy" containing "banned" sibutramine. The girl's death stems from illegal "diet pills" Police investigation found that the "weight loss chocolate" containing sibutramine mistakenly taken by Tingting was purchased online by her mother Li Min (pseudonym). As an office worker, Li Min is often sedentary and lack of exercise, resulting in weight gain. Later, when she saw the weight loss advertisement in her circle of friends, she spent 380 yuan on "weight loss chocolate" from wechat merchants. Wechat told her that this kind of chocolate has strong efficacy and can eat up to half a piece at a time. These "weight loss chocolates" are green and healthy with herbal ingredients. In fact, after taking this "chocolate", Li is sensitive to his heart beating significantly faster and his body often sweats. Of course, the weight loss effect is also obvious. After taking it for the first time, she lost 6 kg. Because "she couldn't sleep all night", Li Min didn't dare to take too much. Later, she felt that the side effects were too great, so she put the remaining "weight loss chocolate" into the bag. One day in March this year, Li Min went out to work, leaving only her daughter and the elderly at home. At that time, the old man was busy cleaning up the house. Tingting saw her mother's bag. When the old man noticed his granddaughter, he found that there were several pieces of gold wrapping paper in front of her, and there was only one chocolate left. At that time, the old man didn't take this to heart. An hour later, when the old man found Tingting sweating heavily and weak, he hurried to take her granddaughter to the hospital. After learning that Tingting may have "eaten badly", the doctor suggested that she wash her stomach first, and then open a test sheet for examination. When Li Min found that her daughter may have eaten four "weight loss chocolates" by mistake, Tingting's situation was very serious. She vomited from time to time, her lips were purple, and she kept sweating, wetting the sheets and pillows. At this time, Li Min quickly sent a wechat to ask wechat merchants what is the ingredient of "weight loss chocolate". After learning that a child was sent to the hospital for eating by mistake, the wechat merchant also consulted the ingredients of his family's "weight loss chocolate". At this time, they knew that the main ingredient of "weight loss chocolate" was "sibutramine". After gastric lavage, the next day, Tingting's condition did not improve, began to be confused, and finally failed to rescue. "Crime and punishment" under the temptation of usury According to the police investigation, the "weight loss chocolate" containing sibutramine comes from Wang Qiang (a pseudonym). The 27 year old young man who used to be an online car Hailing driver overheard sibutramine while having dinner with his friends. His friend told him that selling sibutramine could make "big money". Wang Qiang is excited. Immediately, he released the information of selling sibutramine raw materials on the network platform. "Indian goods, high purity" became his advertising slogan. Wang Qiang confessed to the police that sibutramine is usually packaged in plastic cloth and placed in a blue bucket. 25 kilograms per barrel, he took the goods at 5500 yuan per kilogram. He took out 11.1 million yuan he had saved for many years and bought 200 kg of sibutramine. When delivering goods, he sometimes chose to mail. More often, he had to drive to the almost empty yellow river at night to trade. To his surprise, business was surprisingly good. After the release of commodity information, buyers on all major platforms contacted him. He sells at a price of 6600 yuan per kilogram. According to the police handling the case, after local dealers get the raw materials of sibutramine, they will process the raw materials into pills, candy, chocolate, etc. Then, advertisements for products such as "model inner pill", "green weight loss medicine" and "weight loss candy" will appear in some people's circle of friends. In fact, many dealers have asked Wang Qiang about the dosage of sibutramine. Wang Qiang repeatedly told that the amount of sibutramine added to each box of weight loss products should not exceed 20 ml. But in reality, some bad businesses often increase the amount of additives in order to improve the weight loss effect. According to the police, Wang Qiang sold sibutramine for more than 1.7 million yuan. His behavior has violated Article 144 of the criminal law and is suspected of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. On April 27 this year, Wang Qiang was arrested with the approval of the procuratorate. As early as August this year, the reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com reported a case of being sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment on suspicion of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. The defendant Qian Yu bought sibutramine and made "weight loss medicine" with this as raw material and sold it to others for profit. The reporter learned that the 3500 yuan sibutramine purchased by Qian Yu could be sold for more than 30000 yuan after simple assembly, which also made Qian Yu taste the sweetness and take risks. Qian Yu's illegal act was seized by the police, also from a tragedy. In October 2019, Xiaomei, a college student from the Art College of a university in Guangdong, fell and died in Hangzhou. His father later found through his daughter's diary that her daughter had taken "weight loss pills" that made her thirsty, flustered, dizzy, sleepless and hallucinating. Later, the father logged in to his daughter's wechat, found a wechat merchant selling diet pills and bought a bottle of diet pills. He reflected the clue displayed by the logistics information to the market supervision and Administration Bureau of Wuzhong District, Suzhou, and then the clue was transferred to the local police. Suzhou police found that Qian Yu's "diet pills" were sold to many people, involving more than 260 post-85 and post-90 buyers in more than 20 provinces such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Fujian. How to control from the source Article 144 of China's criminal law stipulates that whoever mixes toxic and harmful non food raw materials into the food produced and sold, or knowingly sells food mixed with toxic and harmful non food raw materials, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years and shall also be fined; Whoever causes serious harm to human health or has other serious circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and shall also be fined; Those who cause death or other especially serious circumstances shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 141 of the criminal law. On October 18 this year, the Shanghai Railway Transportation Court sentenced the defendant Guo Meimei to fixed-term imprisonment of two years and six months and a fine of 200000 yuan for the crime of selling toxic and harmful food. Zhou Hao, a lawyer of Beijing Weiheng law firm, said that sibutramine belongs to "toxic and harmful non food raw materials". The illegal production and sales of weight loss sugar added with sibutramine constitute the crime of producing and selling toxic and harmful food according to law. He said that according to the criminal law, if the sale of toxic and harmful non food raw materials causes harm and death to human health, the level of punishment should be improved. According to Zhao Dajun, a lawyer of Shanghai Xiaocheng (Suzhou) law firm, the current laws and regulations are more appropriate for the punishment of relevant acts. The key point is to control and stop the production and import of sibutramine from the source. For online sales, we need to strengthen control and crack down on crimes. A post prosecutor of Suzhou Wuzhong District People's Procuratorate reminded that the production and sale of toxic and harmful food not only violates the law, but also seriously damages the health of consumers. Under the high pressure of the state to crack down on crimes endangering food safety, do not defy the law. In addition, excessive "appearance anxiety" is not desirable. Consumers should choose formal channels when purchasing weight loss drugs and other products. If they find that their rights and interests are damaged, they should protect their rights in time. A prosecutor of Xuzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate said that when consumers buy weight-loss drugs, they should remember to check the drug ingredients and do not buy three noes products. After knowing that sibutramine is contained in diet pills, consumers should immediately report the case to the public security organ. Consumers should also consume rationally and lose weight healthily. Relevant departments should also strengthen publicity and put an end to relevant illegal and criminal acts to prevent such tragedies from happening again. (outlook new era)