The Dongguan Market Supervision Administration has issued an administrative penalty for the illegal addition of drugs to herbal tea in China

According to a report from The Paper on December 19, chlorpheniramine maleate, ibuprofen, and chlorpheniramine were illegally added to homemade herbal teas sold in a herbal tea shop in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. The First People of Dongguan City The court held that the above-mentioned behavior constituted the crime of producing and selling poisonous and harmful food, and sentenced the owner of the herbal tea shop to 7 months in prison. At the same time, the Dongguan Market Supervision Administration also issued an administrative penalty on the operator. Recently, some places have ushered in the peak period of new crown infections, and drugs such as ibuprofen are "hard to find". However, adding such antipyretic and analgesic drugs to food is illegal and may even bring food safety hazards. According to my country's "Food Safety Law" stipulates that drugs are not allowed to be added to food, but substances that are traditionally both food and Chinese herbal medicines can be ...