Recently, the "originator of Internet celebrities" Papi sauce company was fined.
According to the official website of the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, Beijing Chunyu Tinglei Network Technology Co., Ltd. is hereinafter referred to as "Chunyu Tinglei Network Company").For illegal advertising, he was fined 180,000 yuan, confiscation of illegal gains 180,000 yuan.
The reason for the punishment shows that the party posted a post on the Xiaohongshu platform titled "I have had enough of Mao Changmeng's many days!" Hair remover save me! ** Notes,The advertised product "Intense Pulsed Light Instrument" is a medical device, and the advertisement has not been reviewed by the advertising review authority. The advertising fee is 18,000 yuan.
Tianyan check shows that the legal representative, chairman and manager of Chunyu Tinglei Network Company is Yang Ming, the founder of Taiyangchuan Hechuan, and the directors include Jiang Yilei (papi sauce). The equity penetration chart shows that Yang Ming and Jiang Yilei both indirectly hold shares in the company. In addition, Chunyu Tinglei Network Co., Ltd. is wholly owned by Hangzhou Free Network Technology, the main company of Papitube.
According to the official website of Taiyang Chuanhe, PapiTube was co-founded by Yang Ming and Papi Sauce in April 2016, since its establishment, PapiTube has signed and incubated more than 100 short** creators, covering grass evaluation, food, beauty, funny, lifestyle, family scenes, mother and child, culture and other vertical fields.
Screenshot of Taiyang Chuanhe's official website.
The Chunyu Tinglei Network Company was fined for violating the rules to promote the "Intense Pulsed Light Instrument", which is also related to the stricter supervision of beauty instruments in recent years. It is understood that with the introduction of the new regulations, more and more beauty instruments are included in the scope of medical devices, which requires relevant beauty instruments to meet the relevant medical device standards in all aspects of production, sales, publicity and promotion.
As early as May 2018, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Notice on the Classification and Definition of Intense Pulsed Light Hair Removal Products", which clarified that strong pulsed light hair removal products are managed according to Class II medical devices. From January 1, 2023, IPL hair removal products shall not be produced, imported and sold without obtaining a medical device registration certificate in accordance with the law.
According to the Food and Drug Administration's "Guidelines for the Registration and Review of Radio Frequency Beauty Devices", from April 1, 2024, radio frequency instruments and radio frequency instruments will be officially managed in accordance with medical devices, and they shall not be produced, imported and sold without obtaining a medical device registration certificate in accordance with the law.
According to Shenzhen News Network, according to the interpretation of the Bao'an Market Supervision Bureau, strong pulsed light hair removal products belong to the second class of medical devices, and the sales entity should obtain the "Class II Medical Device Business Record Certificate", and the radio frequency ** instrument products belong to the third class of medical devices, and the sales entity should obtain the "Medical Device Business License". In addition, network operations also need to be publicized for the filing of online sales of medical devices.
In addition, in terms of advertising, according to the interpretation of the Bao'an Market Supervision Bureau, medical device advertisements shall not be published without review, and shall be published in strict accordance with the content passed by the review, and shall not be edited, spliced or modified. Otherwise, in accordance with the "Advertising Law of the People's Republic of China", a fine of up to 1 million yuan can be imposed, and related products that have not obtained the "Medical Device Product Registration Certificate" shall not claim to have medical efficacy, otherwise a fine of up to 2 million yuan may be imposed.
*: Henan Business Daily integrates the official website of Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, Shenzhen News Network, Taiyang Chuanhe official website, Tianyan Check, and public information.