On May 26th, Red Star News learned from the China Judgments Online that the People's Court of Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province, recently announced the first instance criminal judgment of the case, which found that the above-mentioned coffee contained the chemical drug ingredient "sildenafil" prohibited by the state from being added to food. Yang Mouqian was convicted of selling toxic and harmful food and sentenced to six months in prison with a one-year probation.
According to the court's investigation, starting from 2024, the defendant Yang Mouqian sold sexual health products through the WeChat platform. Subsequently, she learned about a product called "Natural Herbal Coffee" from her WeChat friend, which claimed to have the effect of enhancing sexual functions. On December 7, 2024 and May 15, 2025, Yang Mouqian purchased 20 boxes of coffee involved in the case (each box containing 22 packs) from the above-mentioned WeChat friends twice at a price of 1450 yuan per 10 boxes, and paid a total of 2900 yuan for the goods.
After investigation, it was found that the coffee involved did not obtain a qualified certificate. Yang Mouqian sold products to the outside world at prices ranging from 200 yuan to 500 yuan per box or 20 yuan to 50 yuan per pack, without fulfilling her obligation to inspect product quality through informal channels. During the sale of the implicated coffee, Yang Mouqian also gave away the implicated coffee for free to customers who purchased other sexual health products through promotion. As of July 17, 2025, when Yang Mouqian was seized by the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Tongdao County, she had sold 12 boxes of coffee involved in the case, given 6 boxes as gifts to customers through promotion, and 1 box for personal use. 23 packages were seized on site. After verification, the 12 boxes of coffee sold by Yang Mouqian amounted to 3860 yuan.
After the incident, the Market Supervision Administration of Tongdao County sent 4 packets of coffee involved in the case to the Jiangxi Qiushi Judicial Appraisal Center for ingredient identification. After testing, it was found that sildenafil, a chemical drug prohibited by the state from being added to food, was detected.
It was also found that on July 24, 2025, Yang Mouqian voluntarily surrendered to the public security organs, truthfully confessed to her criminal facts, and voluntarily returned some illegal gains.
Witness Mo confirmed that after adding "Xiaoqian" on WeChat, he learned that Xiaoqian was selling "male enhancement coffee" to improve sexual function. On the early morning of May 19, 2025, he spent 20 yuan on WeChat to buy a pack of "male enhancement coffee". After drinking it, he felt hot and mentally excited.
After trial, the court found that the defendant Yang Mouqian violated national food safety management regulations by selling food that she knew contained toxic and harmful non food ingredients, and her behavior constituted the crime of selling toxic and harmful food. According to relevant laws and regulations, the verdict is as follows: the defendant Yang Mouqian is guilty of selling toxic and harmful food and sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for one year, and fined 12000 yuan (the fine has been paid).
Red Star News reporter Jiang Lin