Daejeon Special Judicial Police Crack Down on Companies Falsely Advertising Masks as Medical Grade
Daejeon Special Judicial Police conducted a planned crackdown and caught pharmacies storing expired prescription drugs openly on display shelves. Provided by Daejeon City
View original image[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] An online shopping mall that advertised non-medical masks as medical masks and pharmacies that stored and displayed expired pharmaceuticals on shelves have been caught.
The Daejeon Special Judicial Police (hereafter referred to as Special Judicial Police) announced on the 2nd that they conducted a planned investigation last month targeting online shopping malls and local pharmacies, uncovering five shopping malls and pharmacies suspected of violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act.
According to the Special Judicial Police, three online shopping malls are suspected of labeling and advertising Chinese-made masks (KN95) that have not received KF (Korea Filter) certification as medical masks and as having fine dust blocking effects.
Additionally, Pharmacy A (Yuseong-gu), caught in the crackdown, stored and displayed 100 tablets of prescription drugs that were 420 days past their expiration date on the dispensing room shelves, and Pharmacy B (Yuseong-gu) was found to have dispensed and sold prescription drugs that were 195 days past their expiration date to patients according to prescriptions.
The Special Judicial Police consider these pharmacies to have violated Article 47 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act. Since expired drugs lose effectiveness and may deteriorate causing side effects, caution from pharmacists and patients is necessary, the Special Judicial Police explained.
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Lee Junho, head of the Civil Life Judicial Police Department of the city, said, “We will crack down on poor-quality mask sellers trying to profit from COVID-19 to prevent harm to innocent victims,” and added, “We will also continue to enforce regulations to eradicate illegal activities such as the sale of substandard pharmaceuticals within pharmacies.”
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