Su Bai read through the details of the case.
It was described as selling fake medicine...
How should he put it? Under the legal definition of fake medicine,
according to the Drug Administration Law, it included drugs whose ingredients did not meet national standards.
Or the sale of drugs that seriously violated pharmaceutical regulations.
Selling drugs without the required authorization, and so on.
All of these fell under the definition of fake medicine.
To put it plainly...
It came down to whether the drugs had a sales license.
With a license, they were legitimate drugs for sale; without one, they were prohibited fake medicine.
The person involved in the case Li Xuezhen had sent him was indeed selling "fake medicine."
The drugs he sold did not meet national requirements and had not been authorized or certified.
But...
Judging by the description of the case as a whole, this "fake medicine" was not medicine that harmed people.
Setting aside an analysis of the specific circumstances for now,
one thing was clear from the defendant's statement at the first instance.
As a patient himself, he had brought in unauthorized medicine from overseas.
It was entirely because that medicine was very effective at alleviating the condition and was inexpensive.
Out of kindness, he had bought it on behalf of fellow patients.
This kind of fake medicine did not harm people. It saved them.
Su Bai went online to look up information about the drugs involved in the case.
He also reviewed the case file's account of how the defendant had purchased the drugs for others and the details of the disease.
The defendant, Lin Yong, had chronic leukemia and needed to take a particular targeted drug.
In China, a single bottle of this drug cost over twenty thousand yuan.
The unauthorized version cost