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Health See other Health Articles Title: Erectile dysfunction drugs added to 'medicinal wines' in China Want... The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) recently announced that 69 medical wines produced by 51 enterprises have illegally added chemicals such as sildenafil, triggering concerns over food safety issues in the country, the Beijing-based Economic Information Daily reports. These enterprises include some renowned brands such as Hainan Yedao Group, which produces tortoise deer wine. Sildenafil is used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension. This is not the first time illegal additives to medicinal wines have been exposed in the press. From 2014, several wine producers in Hebei and Guangxi have been found to have added erectile dysfunction drugs to their products and their managers have been charged for selling tainted foodstuffs. On June 2, food and drug supervisory officials launched a sting on a wine factory in Liuzhou, Guangxi and found its products contained erectile dysfunction drugs. On June 13, supervisory officials inspected a biotech firm and on July 23 they inspected a wine factory and found their medicinal wines to contain erectile dysfunction drugs and other illegally added chemicals. Police have arrested the managers of the companies. Officials found the wine contained 120 milligrams of sildenafil, said Fan Guicheng, the head of Liuzhou's drug and food inspection team. For quite a long time, healthcare foods have been tainted with illegal additives, including sexual stimulants or prescription weight-loss drugs. Despite the lack of health benefits among the 27 healthcare products approved by the regulator, there is still a strong market demand for them. Regulators have encountered difficulties in cross-regional inspection and law enforcement as such channels are often used to sell medicinal wines and healthcare products, especially amid increasing sales on the internet. At present, the rules do not forbid selling healthcare products on the internet. Adding Western drugs to health products or common food products is illegal, said Wang Zhong, deputy secretary general of the China Health Care Association. As the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is not typically as obvious as Western medicine, many disreputable manufacturers add Western drugs into TCM healthcare products, Wang said. References: Fan Guicheng 樊貴誠 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Medical wines -- wild concept.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. - 1 Tim. 5:23
Oh, dear, that subject again..... it's claimed he only meant juice. http://www.scionofzion.com/drinking.htm
Ha! Thanks for the memories.
Whoa, "drink no longer water." Think of all the people sinning that way every day with no idea of it!!
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