Yesterday, journalists entered a website selling chemicals, and products that are not banned are displayed on the web page. When the journalist offered to purchase potassium hydroxide (toxic, listed in the catalogue of dangerous chemicals), the seller indicated that it had been sold and offered to the journalist shortly, claiming that there were more chemical reagents. Also replace “sulfate” with “sulfate” with “sulfate”. Webshot
Vendors replace the words “alphaic acid”, “sulphate” with the words “sulfic acid”, which can be sent by express delivery; transaction regulation is difficult
Newkyo news recently, a drop-off for a beijing high school announcement was circulated online. The bulletin stated that three students at the school's first three students had placed chemicals purchased from the web in their drink bottles and had been hospitalized after drinking。
Yesterday afternoon, the school confirmed to the new kyoto press that the chemical is “copper sulphate” and that currently the affected students have been discharged from hospital and that both of the students involved are in preparation for the examination。
Yesterday afternoon, a vice-chancellor of the school responded to the reporter of the newspaper shinjing that there had been no direct contradiction between the two students in the same class on 12 april this year. After the incident, the affected students were taken to hospital and discharged before the beginning of the year. “both students are minors and are in compulsory nine-year education and are therefore subject to disciplinary action in accordance with school regulations.”
News workers in the new kyoto newspaper found that within the platform, the vendors were easily contacted and hazardous chemicals were purchased. More chemicals, which are not in themselves in the catalogue of dangerous chemicals, are more readily available to humans。
Journalist experience
In interviews, ninjing newspaper journalists found that, through a number of web channels, ordinary people could buy dangerous chemicals without difficulty. Some of the sellers used the stickers to reach out, agreed on prices through social platforms and eventually sent the goods out using couriers。
We can buy copper sulphate in several internet stores
What kind of chemical is copper sulphate and what harm does it do to humans? News workers in the new kyoto newspaper learned that copper sulphate, commonly known as blue beryllium, is white or grey powder, and that water solution is blue and can cause poisoning if it is mistreated and overdosed. In life, copper sulphate is one of the ingredients for the preparation of microbicides and is often used as a cleaning agent for swimming pools and baths。
According to relevant media reports, a junior boy in hangzhou had a full glass of copper sulphate solution for gambling with his classmates. When they were taken to the hospital, the doctor gave them fluids and gave them plenty of milk. Eventually, the boy soon recovered and the indicators were normal. According to the boy, after drinking the copper sulfate solution, "only the tongue is numb and the stomach hurts."
Teacher yang, professor at the institute of chemical engineering at nanjing teacher training university, told ninjing journalist that copper sulphate was common in life and that small intakes had little human impact. In contrast, wang bin, a medical doctor at hangzhou city hospital who had previously received a medical consultation, stated that the wrongful use of copper sulphate solution could cause damage to the throat, oesophate and digestive systems. “in small quantities, it causes nausea and vomiting, and in large doses it causes damage to the liver, kidneys, myocardial muscles, and in serious cases life is in danger.”
Ninkyo journalists found that copper sulphate was a publicly available chemical agent, as it was not currently regulated。
On an electrician platform, ninkyo journalists observed that there were many sellers of copper sulphate crystals, usually at around $10 per 100 grams, the highest selling house, with more than 2,000 transactions since this year alone。
There's a vendor in the bar
Journalists have learned that some sellers are able to attract buyers by publishing information through community-based platforms such as kiosks。
Within the 100-degree chemical reagent bar, journalists have seen a number of suspected marketing accounts posting chemicals for public sale。
Journalists exchanged with a seller in the name of the need to purchase experimental reagents. Following a dialogue, he presented journalists with a list of his own products and stated that 500 reagents were available。
On the list of products supplied by this shopkeeper, journalists have observed that there is a wide range of highly corrosive chemicals. Among them, some drugs are listed in the list of dangerous chemicals, the sale and transport of which are required to be regulated by the relevant authorities。
Journalists randomly selected potassium hydroxide for consultation, which the seller claimed was sold at a price of $50g/3 and could be shipped at any time。
The seller told journalists that he also had internet stores, but because the shopping website restricted some chemicals to hang, there was a relatively small variety of goods, and for some clients who needed them, it usually reached out to customers through stickers, then agreed on the type and price of goods on social tools such as qqq, and finally traded through payment of treasures, online silver or micro-credit。
In addition to chemicals such as potassium hydroxide, strong acid is readily available. In his conversations with journalists, the seller replaced the words “alphaic acid”, “sulphate” with the words “sulphate” and stated that he could provide such acid at a price of $60 per bottle of 500 ml。
After presenting the product type and fees, the seller sent its own payment treasures and bank accounts。
Asked about the province where the journalist was located, the seller indicated that plastic bottles could be packed and shipped on the express。
Deficiencies in the regulation of dangerous chemical transactions
Potassium hydroxide is known to be readily available within the adhesive bar, to be extremely alkaline and corrosive and to have some toxicity to humans。
In the 2015 edition of the " catalogue of hazardous chemicals " , ninjing newspaper journalists observed that potassium hydroxide was listed。
Within 100 degrees of the chemical reagent bar, there are still many vendors that can buy potassium hydroxide. One seller stated that, as “not very well regulated”, such chemicals as potassium hydroxide could be purchased。
Should the platform be held accountable for regulating trade in dangerous chemicals? According to the occupation of zhao, a lawyer at the zhijun law firm in beijing, in practice, there are many chemicals not listed as dangerous chemicals, which are not prohibited by law but which are objectively toxic to the human body。
For such chemicals, regulation is made more difficult by the difficulty of judging the true use of the buyer in the transaction。
Moreover, it is difficult to hold platforms accountable because of their “unjudgeable” nature. “some microtoxic articles are outside the control framework and cannot be held accountable under the law”
Ninkyo journalists noted previous media recommendations that such drugs should be purchased in real name. In response, zhao's occupation claimed that, because of the common nature of such medicines, the purchase of real names was virtually impossible to achieve。
Reporter wang jing, intern, cold song, circle
