A shocking cargo was detained at the Seoul airport - customs officials were attracted by the label "A cure for all diseases." According to the Daily Mail, after laboratory analysis, it turned out that the tablets contain human flesh.
According to journalists, drugs intercepted in Seoul are in high demand as a means of boosting immunity and increasing stamina. The drug is made in China illegally, and stillborn babies are the main raw materials for its preparation. Traders store tiny corpses in household refrigerators, then oven-dry and grind the bodies.
The resulting powder is mixed with herbs to hide the capsule's true content from examiners. Health authorities in several Asian countries are already seriously concerned that pills from dead babies may also make their way to the Internet market.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China claims that it has not found fragments of human flesh in Chinese-made medicines, as reported on the eve of the South Korean media.
"The investigation by the Ministry of Health did not confirm traces of crushed human flesh in medicinal capsules," agency spokesman Deng Haihua said Tuesday in an interview with CNTV. He confirmed that the ministry, together with public security and customs authorities, as well as the department of commerce, began an investigation into the reports that appeared in August last year.
South Korean media have previously reported that Kazakhstan's customs authorities have tightened controls over the smuggling of endurance drugs made in northeastern China in Jilin province. The drug was presented as a kind of panacea for a number of ailments, but regulatory authorities have identified ingredients that are harmful to health. One of the TV channels even showed a film about how Chinese pharmaceutical companies make tablets from powder obtained by drying fragments of bodies of infants who have died in hospitals and embryos obtained as a result of abortions.
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Chinese laws prohibit the sale of human tissue and bodies, and the disposal of corpses as medical waste.
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