In an ordinary residential community in Chiba, Japan, when Yamato Ageo got up in the morning, he found that he had a slight fever and nasal congestion.
As an old man, Yamato Kamio habitually went to the pharmacy at the corner of the street and bought a box of "cold powder" from Togawaya, preparing to take some medicine to treat himself.
If he wants to go to the hospital, he must first make an appointment with the doctor, then go to the community doctor on the specified day and time, and finally go to the pharmacy with the prescription to buy medicine.
The whole process is very cumbersome, and you have to wait for an unknown amount of time before you can make an appointment.
Therefore, whenever Yamato Ueo has some minor illnesses, he is used to buying medicine himself, especially the Chinese herbal medicine from Togawaya, which is the best-selling one.
In the drugstore, Yamato chatted with the familiar staff.
For example, the recently hotly discussed Dongchuanwu theft case, where so many precious medicinal materials and secret recipes disappeared, the police still have no evidence.
We also cursed a few times, saying that these Koreans deserve to die.
After returning home and drinking the cold medicine, Yamato Ageo prepared to lie down at home for a while and rest.
Suddenly, he felt a pain in his stomach, and then he quickly got up and rushed to the toilet.
Who would have thought that Yamato Kamio spent the entire morning in the toilet, suffering from persistent diarrhea and high fever. The old man, who almost fainted, had no choice but to ask his family to call the emergency number.
The number of such diarrhea patients has increased in recent times, and most of them are middle-aged and elderly patients.
At first there were dozens of cases, then hundreds, and slowly the number grew to thousands.
Japanese doctors conducted very careful examinations and found that these diarrhea patients had one thing in common, that is, they all took Togawaya's Chinese herbal medicine.
All of a sudden, the monitoring alarm of Japan's Drug and Food Safety Agency was triggered.
Media reporters had already learned about this incident through informants and rushed to the hospital.
For journalists, this kind of "serial news" is their favorite.
Half a month ago, "Dongchuan House" suffered a mysterious theft, followed by a sharp drop in stock prices, and then serious confrontation between South Korea and Japan over the theft and the arson case.
Now it has been revealed that Togawa-ya's Chinese herbal medicine has caused serious adverse reactions, and this news has made the reporters excited episode by episode.
In Japan, the supervision of drugs and food is almost harsh, the penalties are also quite severe, and the public attention is very high.
This is the most serious drug quality problem in Japan since the Meiji era.
For a time, drug regulatory authorities, police departments, and a large number of media reporters flocked to the "Higashikawa-ya Kampo Medicine Co., Ltd." located in the suburbs of Tokyo.
There were more than ten live broadcast vehicles from the media alone, which lined up in a long line and almost blocked the factory gate.
Then those field reporters stood in front of the "Tokawaya Kampo Medicine Co., Ltd." sign and broadcast the event live, which immediately became an explosive social news.
Dongchuan Jianren was almost going crazy. Not long after he was discharged from the hospital, he received a report that his own medicine had caused large-scale diarrhea and vomiting.
Normally, according to the general process, after the drug is produced and packaged, it needs to undergo a final quality test in the laboratory before leaving the factory.
But the common unspoken rule of pharmaceutical factories is to strictly control the quality of the raw materials of the medicines. If all the raw materials are fine, then how could there be any problems with the medicines produced?
Therefore, samples are usually kept on file for subsequent spot checks, while the most important factory inspection is ignored.
Chen Xia himself produces medicines, so of course he knows the unspoken rules and loopholes, so he came up with the idea of adding a few more medicines to them.
You have to know that he added countless tons of "laxatives" to 20 huge medicine storage tanks, and these laxatives were made into medicines and shipped out of the factory to thousands of households.
If he had been a little more ruthless, who knows how many people would have died by now.
At this time, the head of the quality inspection department came to report to the board of directors with all the quality inspection documents, sweating profusely.
"President, please review this. We have conducted detailed quality tests on the 10 Chinese herbal medicines involved in this incident. All evidence indicates that there should be no problems with the medicines."
Chairman Dongchuan suddenly shouted:
"Damn it! If there's nothing wrong with the medicinal ingredients, why are there so many side effects like diarrhea and vomiting now? Are you pigs? All these drugs have been preserved, why don't you conduct further analysis?"
"President, all remaining drugs have been taken away by the Food and Drug Administration. We purchased several boxes of drugs from the market and are currently undergoing emergency testing."
"What are the test results?"
"No...I don't know...it will take some time."
Dongchuan Jianren felt like he was about to have a cerebral hemorrhage. He couldn't imagine how much the company's stock price would plummet and to what extent its reputation among the people would be reduced once this incident happened.
President Nohara could only comfort him:
"The most important thing now is to quickly hold a press conference. We'll apologize first. Since there's no problem with the raw materials, we'll say the diarrhea is due to the traditional Chinese medicine—no, it's a side effect of traditional Chinese medicine."
When it's a highlight, they say it's a Chinese herbal medicine, but when something goes wrong, it's a Chinese patent medicine...
The most common side effect of Chinese patent medicines is gastrointestinal reactions, which are also indicated in the product instructions.
Dongchuan Jianren nodded repeatedly when he heard this:
"Yes, this is a side effect of the drug itself, and we've clearly stated it. So this diarrhea incident isn't a product quality issue. Okay, Nohara, contact the media immediately and give them more PR money. You must suppress this matter."
The Tokawaya Company was in chaos, and the prince, Tokawa Kotaro, was still confused.
But he thought that the company was unlucky and never thought about whether it had any relationship with the prince of the Four Seasons Group, whom he had met a few times in Yangcheng, China.
Look, Chen Xia has done a very clean job, passing through a sea of flowers without leaving a single leaf behind.
Faced with the influx of media reporters, Dongchuanya held an impromptu press conference.
Chairman Kento Togawa personally led a group of company executives and bowed 90 degrees.
"We sincerely apologize to all consumers for the recent series of side effects of our Dongchuanwu Kampo medicine. But please believe us, these are simply side effects of the medicine itself, not product quality issues."
Reporters repeatedly asked, "Mr. Dongchuan, are you sure this isn't a product quality issue?"
"We can confirm that these are all our test reports, and everything shows normal. You can look at the instructions. Traditional Chinese medicine has a relatively common side effect, which is gastrointestinal reactions.
However, the diarrhea is mild and will stop immediately as long as the consumer stops using the product. It will not cause any adverse sequelae to the human body."
Dongchuan's statement reached thousands of households through television screens.
However, he was immediately slapped in the face.
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