You can’t rely on the blue pills for performance…not from the ones sold from this illegal drug production facility in Shenzhen.

Shenzhen drug administration and Shekou police department seized a total of 140,000 contraband Viagra pills worth more than RMB 5 million ($806,000) at a counterfeit drug wholesaling den, Shenzhen Business Daily reported on April 1.

The raid came after the Shekou police department received a tip from an anonymous source saying that fake Viagra was being sold online to buyers throughout China. On March 24, after identifying that the suspects were operating from a residential building on Qianhai Road in Nanshan district, the police raided the operation and arrested three suspects.

Testing results from the Shenzhen drug administration confirmed the drugs as counterfeit. The fake Viagra pills was found to mimic the effects of the Pfizer-made drug designed to help cure erectile dysfunction.

According to Pfizer’s senior scientist Amy Callanan, the bogus blue pills may contain chalk, brick dust, paint, or pesticides. In an extreme case, counterfeit pills sold to South Korea that originated in China were found to contain human fetuses, Bloomberg Business Week reported.

If results are reliable, the real pills could help prevent cancer, according to researchers at Guangdong’s Sun Yat Sen University.

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