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Many people like to drink medicinal liquor for their health.
However, recently in Chengdu, Sichuan, a distillery secretly added Western medicine to its medicinal liquor and was heavily fined by the government.
The local market-regulation authorities recently announced that several types of medicinal liquor produced by the distillery contained sildenafil.
Sildenafil is what people commonly call Viagra, and it is a prescription drug.
According to national regulations, this drug must never be added to food or health-care liquor.
Experts point out that drinking this medicine together with alcohol is extremely dangerous, especially for people with heart problems, and may even be life-threatening.
The investigation also found that secretly adding medicine was not the distillery’s only problem.
Many of the medicinal ingredients they used had not undergone safety inspections, the production process had not been truthfully recorded, and false production dates had been printed on the bottles.
These actions seriously violated the Food Safety Law.
In the end, the regulators imposed severe penalties on the distillery, confiscating its illegal income and imposing a fine totaling more than 2.52 million yuan.
Food safety concerns everyone’s health.
Some people feel that medicinal liquor is very effective after drinking it and think it is the distillery’s “secret formula,” when in fact Western medicine had simply been added illegally.
This incident also reminds us to be careful when buying health products. Do not blindly trust so-called miraculous effects; safety and health should come first.