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A company that made and sold unauthorized medical products by deceiving them for their excellent efficacy in urinary incontinence and skin diseases has been caught.
Consumers who took the wrong medication suffered from headaches, abdominal pain, and fever.
Reporter Baek Jong-gyu's report.
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A man gathers elderly people and is eager to promote the product.
It is a drug using stem cells and explains it as if it has excellent efficacy against prostate and urinary incontinence diseases.
[Unauthorized medical product vendor: oriental medicine cosmetics in one room. One shot at incontinence, one shot at prostate...]
It also promoted online that applying products to the eyes, nose, and anus can treat skin diseases.
A total of 780 products were sold in attractive advertisements, and they pocketed 520 million won.
However, this product turned out to be an unauthorized product without formal permission.
[Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Investigation] It's from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. I'm out to execute a search warrant.]
According to an investigation by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, two product manufacturers made 1,500 unauthorized products and promotional leaflets and handed them over to door-to-door sellers for 250 million won,
The
vendor even recruited an experience group and sold the product to consumers at 700,000 won, which is four times the price of the purchase cost.
Of course, the side effects were serious.
After eating this unauthorized product, the right consumers had to suffer from various diseases such as headaches and abdominal pain.
[Hong Seong-han / Head of the Hazardous Crime Central Investigation Team at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety: Pain or fever occurred, and even bleeding occurred at the site of administration. Therefore, it is correct to purchase and use medicines or medical products that guarantee safety and hazards from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.]
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety caught three people who made and sold the unauthorized product on charges of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and handed it over to the prosecution.
In order to prevent the recurrence of
, it has also decided to seize 220 million won in criminal proceeds.
I'm BAEK JONG KYU of YTN.
Video editing: Shin Soo-jung
Design: Kim Jin-ho
Image courtesy of Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
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