Authorities must act to ensure zero tolerance for health scams

A POST WIDELY CIRCULATED ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA has put the Tianjin-based Quanjian Group, a health product company, in the center of a storm of public criticism, as it exposes that the group's "secret anti-cancer recipe" medicine led to the death of a 4-year-old cancer patient in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region three years ago. Science and Technology Daily comments:

The parents suspended their daughter's medical treatment at the persuasion of the salespersons of Quanjian, and the girl died after taking the company's medicine for eight months in late 2015.

Quanjian denied that its product had caused the girl's death, and said the post was trying to harm its reputation.