Fake sex drugs create a big workload for prosecutors

Ingredients often 'unclear', prosecutor says, and may include chemicals harmful to health

Sexual arousal drugs accounted for 90 percent of the cases addressed by prosecutors in Shanghai during a 10-month campaign last year against bogus medicines.

A total of 178 cases involving food and drug safety were investigated in the crackdown from March to December, and 221 suspects were identified. The caseload was up 30 percent from the same period in the previous year, officials from the Shanghai People's Procuratorate said at a media briefing on Thursday.