The cost price of ibuprofen tablets was 2.69 yuan/bottle (100 tablets). The price of the broken down ibuprofen tablets was 283 yuan/bottle, more than a hundred times, 18.9 times the previous price. On December 20, a Chinese herbal medicine store in Longwan District, Wenzhou was investigated by the market supervision department for allegedly driving up the price. Pengpai News (www.thepaper.cn) learned from the Longwan District Market Supervision Bureau that law enforcement officers found that a Chinese herbal medicine store had purchased 73 ibuprofen tablets with a specification of 100 tablets from different channels in March, October and November this year for many times at 2.69 yuan, 2.67 yuan and 3.2 yuan. The original sales price was 15 yuan. Since December 18, due to the shortage of "ibuprofen" in the market, pharmacies have sold it in parts, selling 50 tablets at 85 yuan first, and then up to 85 yuan and 30 tablets later. The average cost of ibuprofen tablets was 2.69 yuan, which was equivalent to 283.3 yuan per bottle, more than 100 times, equivalent to 1888% of the previous price. The market supervision department believed that the behavior of this drugstore was suspected of violating Article 14 (3) of the Price Law, "the operator shall not have the following unfair price behaviors: (3) fabricating and spreading information about price increases, driving up prices and pushing up commodity prices too high", and filed a case against it. (Outlook New Times)