On March 25th, the People's Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing, released the "White Paper on the Trial of Food and Drug Related Crimes (2019-2024)" to inform the public of the basic situation of the trial of food and drug related crimes in Chaoyang Court. According to the white paper, from 2019 to 2024, the Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing concluded a total of 108 cases related to food and drug crimes. Among them, there were 46 cases in 2019, 20 cases in 2020, 13 cases in 2021, 3 cases in 2022, 16 cases in 2023, and 10 cases in 2024. From the perspective of the number of cases, with the increase of front-end governance efforts, the number of food and drug related cases entering the trial stage has declined, but the attention caused by the scale and impact of the cases has significantly increased. The white paper shows that perpetrators of food and drug crimes engage in chain based division of labor, including raw material supply, production, logistics, and sales, and commit crimes across regions, showing a trend towards networking and technology, and constantly upgrading and iterating. In the production process, the perpetrator usually chooses hidden places such as residential houses, suburbs, and basements to set up "black workshops" and "underground factories" for production, using fake or unapproved raw materials, such as purchasing meat and its products that are prohibited by the state for disease prevention and control; By using false labels or impersonating legitimate enterprises, in addition to offline sales in rural markets and small commodity stores, online sales are also conducted through new channels such as e-commerce platforms and social media. The perpetrator engages in data and information "de tracking", uses false identities, and utilizes electronic payment tools, domestic and foreign logistics, and other methods to achieve networked transactions, logistics, and payments, increasing the difficulty of investigation and punishment. The white paper points out that the perpetrator used high-tech means and anti detection technology to illegally add chemical substances such as clenbuterol and abuse additives in the food industry; The pharmaceutical industry has significantly enhanced its technicality by replicating high-end drugs, forging drug labels, and even using biotechnology to produce counterfeit products. The white paper shows that self-employed or mobile traders use simple production equipment to form "small workshops" to produce or sell fake and shoddy food or drugs, such as bottling self purchased bulk Baijiu, pasting counterfeit registered trademark marks such as "Niulanshan", and illegally adding non edible substances. The actual controller and employees of the enterprise jointly committed the crime, and the employees of the pharmaceutical factory violated professional ethics by privately manufacturing "Angong Niuhuang Pills". The criminal subjects have gradually evolved from offline vendors to online vendors, and micro businesses, e-commerce, etc. sell "three no" products through online platforms or social groups. In practice, the main body of the industrial chain has clear division of labor and participates in related crimes together, such as logistics practitioners knowingly providing transportation services despite violating the law; E-commerce platforms fail to fulfill their review obligations and tacitly allow merchants to sell counterfeit and inferior products; Advertising companies produce false advertising content for counterfeit food and drugs; How to punish personnel who are not directly involved in production and sales in the chain for issuing false reports by testing institutions is a difficult problem in judicial practice. The white paper shows that the low cost and high profit of crimes involving food and drugs are important reasons for the high incidence of such crimes. The perpetrator committed food and drug related crimes with low economic costs and low technical barriers, such as using inferior raw materials and illegally adding clenbuterol to beef. Workshop style production equipment is simple, such as using sealing machines, seals, etc. to complete the filling of counterfeit drugs or food processing; Imitation and counterfeiting techniques are simple, and counterfeiting well-known brand packaging can be completed through ordinary printing. The difficulty of counterfeiting anti-counterfeiting labels is low; Illegal addition of ingredients such as sibutramine and hormones does not require complex processes. There is a huge gap between the selling price and cost, and there is huge room for huge profits. The cost of adding sibutramine to a weight loss drug is 10 yuan/box, and the selling price can reach several hundred yuan. Beijing Chaoyang Court stated that it will continue to maintain a high-pressure situation in cracking down on food and drug related crimes in the future, highlighting the crackdown on food and drug related crimes that seriously endanger the lives and health of specific groups such as the elderly, primary and secondary school students, and infants and young children. It will also highlight the crackdown on food and drug related crimes committed through the use of the internet, e-commerce platforms, social media, TV shopping programs, and other means. It will also highlight the crackdown on food and drug related crimes that have a negative impact on society, and continue to be strict in terms of the amount of fines and sentencing periods. (New Society)