Is the "Three No" product "AB Lightness Essence" a "miracle drug" for weight loss? The profit margin is forty to fifty times higher! CCTV's bottom line

Recently, during an inspection by the Market Supervision Bureau of Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, and other departments, it was discovered that in a case of illegal medical practice, some criminals used a product called "AB Lightening Element" to inject consumers, claiming to be able to fully replace traditional slimming products and lose 3-7 pounds once a week. However, law enforcement officers have found that there are significant issues with this product solely based on its packaging.

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Ying Xiaoxiang, the captain of the Administrative Law Enforcement Team of the Market Supervision Bureau of Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province: The record information of cosmetics is marked on the outer packaging. Through the cosmetics inquiry of the National Medical Products Administration, it was found that this record information does not exist. At the same time, when searching for a dealer on the National Enterprise Credit Information Network, it was found that this dealer also does not exist.

During the investigation process, law enforcement officers received new complaints from consumers about the "AB Lightweight Element" product. A consumer discovered that when they made a purchase, they saw a link to the "AB Lightweight Essence" product claiming to be applied externally to the skin surface. However, upon receiving the package, it turned out that there were also syringes and injection needles accompanying the goods.

Law enforcement officers found that in the injection videos sent by merchants to consumers, the injection scene was in the living room of ordinary households. After simple disinfection, this so-called "AB light substance" is injected into the consumer's body.

During further investigation by law enforcement officers, some consumers complained of adverse reactions after being injected with this light substance.

Ying Xiaoxiang, the captain of the Administrative Law Enforcement Team of the Market Supervision Bureau of Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province: Consumers have developed symptoms such as loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and suspect that there may be quality issues with the product.

The production workshop secretly sent drugs for testing, but they contained hypoglycemic drugs

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Law enforcement investigations have found that products with the same outer packaging and trademark are labeled as lightweight needles and lightweight vegans. What's going on here?

Feng Yu, a police officer from the Food, Drug, Environment and Knowledge Forest Brigade of the Zhuji Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, said that in the production workshop of Yimei Cosmetics Co., Ltd., the products are scattered in a very messy manner in various corners of the room, with sewage flowing everywhere and the environment very harsh.

At the scene, law enforcement officers accidentally heard factory workers mention that there is another workshop that workers cannot enter normally, and only a few core personnel from the factory can enter.

In order to find out what ingredients are contained in the products produced in this workshop and make suspect so alert, law enforcement personnel sent the collected samples to the testing agency for testing.

Feng Yu, a police officer from the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Forest Brigade of Zhuji City Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province: The main components of freeze-dried powder are smectide and mannitol. After mixing, a solution is made. It is freeze-dried into powder using a freeze-drying machine and mixed with physiological saline. A needle is used to extract 0.5 to 1 milliliter, and then injected into the subcutaneous tissue around the navel.

Smegglutide is a hypoglycemic drug that reduces food intake, reduces gastric emptying, and increases satiety through central appetite suppression, thereby lowering blood sugar levels. Although Smeglutide has been approved for weight loss treatment in the United States and Europe, it is only approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in China, and has not yet been approved for weight loss treatment. Experts told reporters that, as Smegglutide does have a certain therapeutic effect on weight loss, in real life, if the patient's symptoms meet the applicable symptoms of the product and are not within the scope of contraindications, according to China's Physician Law, doctors can apply for use beyond the scope of the instructions, but they must not use it on their own.

Yu Li, Director of the Endocrine Metabolism Department of Zhuji People's Hospital in Zhejiang Province: Patients with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer cannot use it as it is a contraindication. Patients with type II multiple endocrine tumor syndrome are also contraindications. Some patients, such as those with pancreatitis and gallstones, increase the risk of developing this disease.

The raw material source of the product is unknown, and the content of each bottle varies

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In addition to the illegal use of hypoglycemic drugs and the crude production process, in the "AB light substance" investigated by the police, not only is the source of the product raw materials unknown, but the content of Smegglutide in each bottle is also uneven. And such "three no" products have transformed into thousands of yuan of weight loss "miracle drugs".

Feng Yu, a police officer from the Food and Drug Environmental Knowledge Forest Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province: The normal concentration of regular Smegglutide solutions sold on the market should be between 1.3 and 1.4 milligrams per milliliter. Their production process is relatively simple, so the content of Smegglutide in the produced light vegetarian products fluctuates greatly, some may reach more than 1 milligram, while others only have 0.1 and 0.2 milligrams.

Not only is it impossible to guarantee the uniformity of the content of Smegglutide in each tube, but according to Tang's raw material supplier, the quality of the products produced from Smegglutide raw materials sold to Tang is also difficult to guarantee.

The source of raw materials is unknown, the quality is not guaranteed, the production process and production technology are lacking, and the superior megglutide has not yet been approved for weight loss treatment in China. Therefore, the suspect, in order to avoid supervision, tries every means to fake the product ingredients and use methods, which makes people mistakenly think that "AB light element" is only a cosmetic, not a drug. In order to make consumers feel that the product is very formal when they buy it, the suspect also created a so-called anti-counterfeiting system.

Feng Yu, a police officer from the Food, Drug, Environment and Knowledge Forest Brigade of Zhuji City Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, said that he used some fragile labels, known as "eight star anti-counterfeiting". Scan the QR code on the bottle and the box, and there will be a Korean website inside, which they have set up themselves.

Law enforcement officials told reporters that the ultimate goal of the suspect was to make huge profits because he wanted to do his best on the surface.

Feng Yu, a police officer from the Food, Drug, Environment and Knowledge Forest Brigade of the Zhuji Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, said that the raw materials purchased by Tang and others from raw material buyers are about 10000 yuan per gram, which can be used to make about 500 lightweight vegetarian products. The average cost price of the raw materials is between 20 to 30 yuan per serving, and the packaging box price is between 1 to 2 yuan per serving. The cost of each lightweight vegetarian product is around 30 to 40 yuan. In the hands of consumers, it is often sold for more than 1000 yuan per needle, with a profit margin of up to 40-50 times.