Shanghai Customs intercepted 247 "human cells" smuggled into China. What are they used for?

People don't even think about smuggling, and they do everything they can. They don't smuggle antiques, mobile phones, high-end electronic products, medicinal materials and auto parts as before, nor do they smuggle ordinary clothes and human hair. Recently, Shanghai Customs seized a case in which a biotechnology company in Shanghai smuggled 247 human cells in the name of laboratory culture medium. In this era when the epidemic situation in COVID-19 is very sensitive, if some terrible viruses spread to China through human cell smuggling, these smugglers should be dismembered and immortalized. Human cells are mostly used in medical research by major medical research institutions and university laboratories to break through the bottleneck of intractable diseases, repair human cell tissues and prolong human life. But once human cells are illegally used, the consequences will be unimaginable.

At present, the Shanghai police have filed an investigation into the case, and these 247 human cells have also been destroyed according to law. It's not 1 time when customs in various countries found that human cells were smuggled. As early as 20 18, biological companies such as BGI and Wuxi pharmatech disguised more than 5,000 human serum as dog plasma and wanted to export it overseas. The result was seized by the customs. These two companies were also severely punished for violating the Regulations on the Management of Human Genetic Resources. In 20 19, the US Customs also seized a case in which an international student wanted to leave the United States with a cancer cell sample and bring it back to his own country for research.

Smuggling human cells, not to mention the economic losses brought to China's customs for tax avoidance, has seriously violated the health and quarantine regulations of China's customs, brought huge risks of biological, biochemical and genetic diseases to China, and seriously threatened the normal production, life and physical and mental health of our people. To this end, China has strictly guarded against death, and has successively promulgated the Customs Health and Quarantine Regulations, the Law on the Management of Human Genetic Resources, the Law on Biosafety and other laws, which have effectively guaranteed the life safety of our people. However, these criminals who smuggle human cells dare to commit crimes against the wind, and the interests behind them are naturally huge. Mercenary activities have made these people lose their conscience. If human stem cells enter China through normal channels, the procedures are complicated, the cost is high, and the examination and approval time is long, so most of them are difficult to pass the examination and approval of China's policies and regulations.

Approved human cells are usually used for research after entry, which can repair various nervous system diseases, improve the hematopoietic and metabolic functions of the liver, delay human aging and prolong human life. If these cells flow into the hands of people who have extraordinary medical technology and want to fight against the country, they can completely make chemical and biological weapons and clone genes to wage war, which is a disaster for any country and even a global crisis. Recently, some biopharmaceutical companies in Japan have made beauty mask products from human umbilical cord blood and smuggled them to other countries crazily. These umbilical cord blood masks of unknown origin are likely to be mixed with some cells of cancer, AIDS, infectious diseases and other adverse diseases. Once it flows into China, the consequences are unimaginable.