00:00Be careful with the vitamin syrups that you're letting your children drink.
00:06It might be like the ones that are seasoned using a washing machine
00:11and mixed with food coloring.
00:14John Consulta's grade in cooking is EXCLUSIVE.
00:23When you come to this house in Arayat, Pampanga,
00:30Good morning, NBI.
00:32We have a safe quarter here.
00:35We also have the FDA with us.
00:39The NBI Central Lausanne Regional Office 3
00:43took over the task of making peking vitamin C syrups for the children.
00:48The repacking of non-registered drugs was also caught on camera
00:52by the Food and Drug Administration or FDA.
00:54The NBI discovered the making of peking vitamin C syrups
00:59when a former employee of the NBI, a fishing authority,
01:03used a washing machine.
01:05One of the agents surprised by the raid
01:08was when they discovered that the raw materials
01:11like sugar, food coloring, and food flavoring
01:15were being mixed by a group in this washing machine.
01:20All of this was put in a washing machine
01:23to be mixed together.
01:25They also put it in bottles like this.
01:30According to the NBI,
01:32aside from the Central Zone and Metro Manila,
01:35their counterfeit vitamin C syrups
01:40can be found in the provinces of Visayas and Mindanao.
01:45What they are doing is very unsanitary.
01:47The contents are unregistered.
01:52They only use food coloring, sugar, and that's it.
01:57They don't take any vitamins.
01:59This is for the children.
02:01Children get sick easily.
02:03Their immune system is weak.
02:06That's why they expect to get vitamin C.
02:11But they don't.
02:12They've been doing this for almost 20 years.
02:15It's worth almost P400,000
02:17when peking vitamin C syrups were confiscated.
02:20One of them was arrested.
02:21He's the owner of the factory
02:23that we're still trying to get.
02:26At first, they were copying the original
02:29of the registered vitamin C.
02:31As time went by, they changed the brand.
02:34We sued them.
02:35We inquested them for violation
02:37of Republic Act 9711,
02:39the Drug and Food Administration Act of 2009.
02:42The NBI reminded the public
02:44to buy from the accredited drugstores.
02:49Now we know, we can see it everywhere.
02:53Instead of buying from the drugstores,
02:55it's still cheap, but there's no effect.
02:57There's no efficacy.
02:58For GMA Integrated News,
03:00John Consulta, Dakatutok, 24 Hours.
