Fake eye patch costs 18 yuan for 186 yuan： employees who sell more than 300,000 bags in 3 years dare not use it.
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It can relieve eye dryness, soreness and blurred vision caused by visual fatigue. Many consumers will not hesitate to buy and use these eye patches when they know that they have eye protection effects. Yesterday, the reporter from chongqing morning post learned from Jiangbei District Procuratorate that a case of suspected production and sale of fake and inferior eye stickers that was examined and prosecuted by the hospital a few days ago was recently sentenced.
A box of eye stickers costing less than 20 yuan actually sold for 186 yuan. How did such fake and inferior products come into being?
The prosecutor of Jiangbei District Procuratorate exclusively disclosed the case to this newspaper, telling the production process of this eye patch — — Outsourcing production, low cost and profiteering marketing.
Knowing that there is a problem with the manufacturer, we also entrust it to produce.
In 2014, Liu and Yin initiated the establishment of a technology company, whose main business is glasses sales. At that time, eye patches used to relieve visual fatigue gradually became the new favorite of the market. Liu and others decided to include the eye patch in the business scope, and let Yin and Yang go out to inspect the eye patch market.
In February of that year, when Yin participated in the "Shanghai Glasses Exhibition", he met the salesperson "Manager Wang" of a pharmaceutical technology company in Zhengzhou, Henan Province (handled separately). The other party claims that it can produce branded eye stickers. After many discussions, the other party sent a sample of eye patch, and said that the brand on the package could be replaced with "Today’s View", and the relevant batch number could also be used. After many investigations, Yin found that the price was much lower than that of his peers, and the production threshold was also very low. He suspected that there was a problem, so he inquired about the approval number of health care products provided by the other party on the Internet, and found nothing.
To this end, "Manager Wang" explained that the batch number was a local batch number and provided an approval for the batch number by "Zhengzhou Health Care Association". Yin knew it was inappropriate, but did not further investigate and verify it. After understanding the situation, Liu made a decision and entrusted this company in Zhengzhou to produce "Today’s Blinking Eye Care Sticker" and then sell it.
Self-printed packaging, self-printed product batch number
After Liu agreed, the company’s purchaser Yang Moumou called "Manager Wang" for 80,000 yuan to produce 40,000 bags first. Yin and others designed the product description, internal and external packaging, etc. according to the information sent by the other party. At the same time, they found a printing factory in Jiangbei, Chongqing, and printed the outer packaging and promotional materials of the "Today’s Eye Sticker". That company in Zhengzhou didn’t have a manufacturer, so it just found a long home and started production. After the manufacturer sent the produced bagged eye stickers through logistics, Liu, Yin and others arranged for employees Zhou and Ren to pack them in a box of 30 bags, and marked the "product batch number" and "production date" by themselves.
During the interrogation, Yin told the prosecutor that the enterprise that produces eye stickers must be an informal enterprise, because it is impossible for formal enterprises to print their own packaging and batch number dates, and it is impossible not to ask the entrusted unit for relevant qualifications.
Ten times the profiteering to sell, their own employees dare not use it.
This bag of eye stickers, which cost less than that of 0.5 yuan, turned into "Bai Fumei" when it was sold. According to Liu’s employee Zhou Moumou, when the outer packaging was printed by the company itself, the cost of a box of "Today’s Eye Stickers" was 16 yuan; After October, 2016, the purchase price was about 18 yuan after the packaging was provided by the enterprises producing eye stickers in Zhengzhou. However, after discussion by Liu, Yin and Yang, the price of this product is set at 186 yuan per box, and the drug efficacy is also indicated on the package.
According to a manager of the company, the eye patch "Today See" is just like a wet tissue, except that it is attached to the eyes. In the product promotion, they also said that it can prevent dry eyes, relieve visual fatigue, and is suitable for myopia. But in fact, at the end of 2015, the company found that some consumers had allergies after using this "eye patch". Once, an employee of the company had uncomfortable eyes and wanted to take some eye patches for his own use, but his colleagues persuaded him not to use them.
Sold more than 300,000 bags in three years, and was sentenced to making and selling fake goods according to law.
The dream of "profiteering" was awakened on November 16th, 2016. On the same day, the staff of the food and drug supervision and management department found that there was a problem with the batch number of the product "Today’s Eye Care Sticker" sold in a franchise store of Liu’s company, and immediately seized the above products in the store.
After Liu learned of the incident, he arranged for Zhou to inform the stores to temporarily remove the eye stickers and turn them into secret sales, but soon he arranged for Zhou to inform the stores to continue selling the eye stickers involved. It was not until he learned that the case was transferred to the public security organ that Liu arranged for Zhou to inform the stores to return the eye stickers to the company or destroy them. When it was seized from 2014 to 2017, Liu’s company purchased more than 300,000 bags of "Today’s Eye Stickers" for sale.
Recently, the Jiangbei District Court sentenced Liu and others and the companies involved to the crime of producing and selling counterfeit drugs. The defendant Chongqing Optical Technology Co., Ltd. was fined 500,000 yuan, and Liu and Yin were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one to three years, with fines ranging from 30,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan. Our reporter Qian Ye
Eye patch does not have medicinal value.
It is understood that most of the eye patches currently on the market only play a role in relieving visual fatigue and do not have medicinal value.
Recently, a reporter from chongqing morning post visited several stores in Jiangbei District, Nan ‘an District and Yubei District, and saw that there were eye stickers for sale in one of them. The salesperson said that the eye stickers they sell mainly play a role in relieving visual fatigue, and many consumers will come to buy them.
"Some consumers think that eye patches can delay myopia, but as far as I know, they don’t have this effect." The salesperson said that the main components of the eye patch are mint and borneol, which will give the eyes a cool feeling and make the users very comfortable. The reporter looked at the eye stickers sold in this optical shop and found that the batch number on the box was "mechanical name" and clearly mentioned that "this product cannot replace medicine".
On a shopping website, eye stickers have also become a commodity that many consumers are keen to buy. Among these eye stickers, there are not only "mechanical name", but also "health name" and "makeup name". Although the name is different, it can be seen that they do not have the function of treating eye diseases. The seller of the online shop also said that the eye patch is only to relieve visual fatigue.
The prosecutor reminded that there are many eye stickers on the market. When purchasing, you must carefully check the product information and choose qualified regular products. At the same time, the prosecutor also reminded merchants that before producing and selling goods, they must first understand relevant laws and regulations, and make and sell legal goods in strict accordance with legal standards, otherwise they will be unable to escape legal sanctions.