CFDA General Administration: Injection of botulinum toxin and other beauty products should be careful

Recently, the food and drug regulatory authorities cracked a number of beauty salons selling the use of illegal drugs and medical devices. Take Zhejiang "3.13" production and sale of counterfeit drugs and unlicensed medical devices case as an example: the suspect Wang opened a medical beauty center in Ningbo, from Shenyang, Hebei, Shenzhen and other illegal elements to buy the label "BOTOX", "Hengli" botulinum toxin injections, identified as "Ruilan" boric acid injections. After investigation, the case involved 77 varieties of more than 50,000 bottles (branch) products are counterfeit drugs or unregistered medical equipment. Sixty suspects have been arrested and fake nests and sales networks have been destroyed in more than 20 provinces (districts and cities).
through the combing of similar cases found that the illegal elements in the case of not obtaining a "medical institutions license", the opening of smaller beauty salons, engaged in injection beauty and other medical beauty services. Injection beauty products are identified as foreign production of botulinum toxin, boric acid, placenta and other injections, some products are packaged without Chinese label. Beauty salons from the hands of non-drug, medical equipment business qualifications of the hands of low-cost purchase of the above-mentioned injection beauty products, these products for the production of counterfeit nests of counterfeit drugs or undocumented medical devices.
In this, the State Food and Drug Administration reminds consumers: do not go to the beauty institutions that have not obtained the "medical institutions license" to do injection beauty and other medical beauty projects, do not use no approval number or registration number, no Chinese logo of botulinum toxin, boric acid and other injection beauty products, so as not to endanger life and health. In particular, botulinum toxin injections are toxic drugs, improper use may cause muscle relaxation paralysis, in severe cases will lead to respiratory failure, heart failure and other life-threatening symptoms. If the vast number of consumers find the production, sale, use of illegal injection beauty products, should promptly report to the food and drug regulatory authorities complaints. The Food and Drug Administration will promptly conduct investigations to crack down on illegal activities in the production and sale of counterfeit drugs and undocumented medical devices. (dandelion)