2 held for selling unauthorized drug over radioactive contamination
2 held for selling unauthorized drug over radioactive contamination
TOKYO, April 5, Kyodo
Tokyo police arrested two people Tuesday for allegedly selling an unauthorized drug by telling customers that it is effective for detoxification, including dealing with internal contamination with radioactive substances.
One of the two is Fumitaka Umewaka, 50, a Kobe-based health food dealer, who is suspected of violating the pharmaceutical affairs law. Umewaka said on a promotional website that the drug absorbs radioactive substances and removes them from the human body, the police said.
He allegedly posted the advertisement after the current nuclear crisis broke out at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northeastern Japan which was hard hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Umewaka, who has no license to sell medicine, sold 10 bottles of the unauthorized liquid drug, called premium zeolite, to three people between Feb. 17 and March 29 for a total of 47,500 yen, the police said.
The police said they believe the suspects sold the drug to more than 1,000 people mainly in northeastern and eastern Japan following the disaster, with sales totaling about 24 million yen.
==Kyodo
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