Illegally add western medicine to herbal tea?Procuratorate filed a criminal attachment to civil publ

A few days ago, the case of herbal tea adding western medicine with criminal public interest lawsuits by the Huidong County Procuratorate of Guangdong Province was tried in the county court. The court sentenced the defendant Zhao to seven months in prison and fined 10,000 yuan after hearing the production, sales of toxic and harmful food. At the same time, he was sentenced to ten times punitive compensation liability for the sales price. The public apologies.

Zhao is an operator of a herbal tea shop. From September 1st to 2nd, 2021, in order to increase the effect of herbal tea, Zhao added western medicine to her herbal tea. After inspection, the store's cold tea, phlegm and cough tea, throat tea, toothache tea, clear heat and dampness tea, etc. Single or various western medicine ingredients such as azole. The Huidong County Procuratorate and the county Market Supervision and Administration Bureau found Zhao's illegal addition in a joint supervision operation. After verification, Zhao sold herbal tea at a price of 6 yuan per bottle, and illegally made a total of 400 yuan in two days.

After the incident, the Huidong County Procuratorate issued the "Suggestion of Suspicious Crime Cases" through the "Two Law Connection" platform. The county Market Supervision and Administration Bureau promptly transfer the case to the public security organs for review. In January of this year, the hospital approved the arrest of Zhao in accordance with the law and conducted a public interest litigation investigation. During the review and prosecution, in order to promote Zhao to plead guilty, he hosted the prosecutor's patience to explain the law. In the end, Zhao truthfully confessed the facts of the crime and took the initiative to confess his crime.

The Huidong County Procuratorate was reviewed that Zhao added western medicine to her herbal tea without medical basis and no clear operating specifications. The types, quality, and dosage of drugs could not be expected. The adverse reactions of medicines, the behavior of the Food Safety Law on the Food Safety Law on the "do not add drugs in foods for production and operation", seriously endangers the health of the people and harms social public interests.

On May 13, the court filed a public prosecution to Zhao for the crime of production, selling toxic and harmful food, and filed a criminal civil public interest lawsuit to the court.

After the court trial, all the opinions of the procuratorial organs were adopted to make the above judgment.

(Source: Procuratorate Author: Chen Ronggui)

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