Ho Chi Minh City asks hospitals to check for counterfeit goods after fake Con O balm discovered

After the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department of Investigation dismantled a ring of counterfeit goods production and trading: Eagle Brand Medicated Oil, Thai moisturizer, Thai Old Man oil and Korean roll-on oil, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health sent a document to the People's Committees of 168 wards, communes, special zones, medical examination and treatment facilities and pharmaceutical businesses in the area to proactively check for counterfeit products...

Accordingly, in order to ensure safety for users and promptly detect and prevent counterfeit products from circulating on the market, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health requests public medical examination and treatment facilities and private hospitals to review and check the list of products being traded and used within the premises of medical examination and treatment facilities (including pharmacies and other business establishments); ensure that counterfeit products or products of unknown origin are not traded or used.

Warehouse at the company of Vo Thanh Tam and Ngo Anh Hong.

Some counterfeit products were detected.

At the same time, promptly provide information to the Department of Health, People's Committees of 168 wards, communes, special zones and management agencies if products are found to have suspicious signs of abnormalities, products not yet permitted for circulation, products that do not meet quality standards, products of unknown origin.

The Department of Health also requested the People's Committees of 168 wards, communes, and special zones to notify pharmaceutical businesses, medical examination and treatment facilities, and people not to trade or use counterfeit goods discovered in the recent past; only buy/sell drugs at legal pharmaceutical businesses.

19 subjects were prosecuted and temporarily detained to investigate the crime of "Production and trading of counterfeit medicines and disease prevention drugs".

As reported by CAND Newspaper , on July 1, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Investigation Agency investigated the case of "manufacturing and trading in counterfeit medicines and disease prevention drugs" carried out by Vo Thanh Tam (director of Thanh Thuy Cosmetics Company Limited) and Ngo Anh Hong (Tam's wife, director of My Trinh Cosmetics Company Limited) and accomplices.

After a period of monitoring, the Economic Police Department of Ho Chi Minh City Police inspected the two companies (located at the same address in Xuan Thoi Thuong Commune, Hoc Mon District) of this couple and discovered that 15 employees were producing and storing various types of essential oils and massage creams of foreign origin, including: Con O essential oil, Thai moisturizer, Thai Old Man oil and Korean roll-on oil. These products are not the products that the two companies registered to produce and trade.

The investigation agency determined that the couple had organized the production of 7 types of Eagle Brand Medicated Oil from Singapore. The total number of counterfeit products sold was 70,000 bottles, equivalent to more than 6 billion VND.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/y-te/tp-ho-chi-minh-yeu-cau-cac-benh-vien-ra-soat-hang-gia-sau-vu-phat-hien-dau-gio-con-o-gia-i774157/