Suspects held for making and selling millions of fake branded sanitary pads across China
Production line’s hygiene standards ‘extremely bad’ and the pads likely to cause diseases if used, say authorities
Police in eastern China have detained two suspects who allegedly made and sold more than 10 million shoddy sanitary towels across the country under popular brand names.
The products, in packaging for well-known brands such as Sofy and Whisper, were made in a village workshop without sterile facilities in the city of Nanchang in Jiangxi province, news portal Ncnews.com.cn quoted authorities as saying.
One of the suspects, identified as Wan, in 2013 came up with the idea of making easy money by producing counterfeit pads after his bar business failed.
Wan started his new business that summer, with the help of his cousin and his cousin’s relatives, renting two rooms in a high-end office building as well as a workshop and two storehouses in the village.