Probe into distillers for ‘Viagra in liquor’
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CHINESE police are investigating claims that two distillers in the southern region of Guangxi added the impotence treatment drug Viagra to their liquor in what could be the country’s latest food-safety scare.
The Liuzhou Food and Drug Administration said it found the Guikun Alcohol Plant and the Deshun Alcohol Plant in Guangxi’s Liuzhou City were putting Sildenafil, more commonly known as Viagra, into three of their baijiu products.
Baijiu is a fiery grain liquor that commands high prices in China.
Law enforcement officers have confiscated 5,357 bottles of suspect products, 1,124 kilograms of raw alcohol and a batch of white powder that was labeled as Sildenafil, in a case said to be worth more than 700,000 yuan (US$112,726), according to a statement on the Liuzhou Food and Drug Administration’s website.
The case has been transferred to the police, the statement said.
The products were all marketed as having health-preserving qualities, it said.
Food safety is a chronic problem in China and public anxiety over cases of fake or toxic food often spreads quickly.
In June, customs authorities seized around 3 billion yuan worth of smuggled meat, some more than 40 years old and rotting, the latest in a grim series of food safety scares.
In 2013, police said they cracked a crime ring that passed off more than US$1 million worth of rat and small mammal meat as mutton.
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