Multiple Chinese brands of sanitary pads exposed for repackaging and reselling substandard products.

Recently, the insider of Chinese brands selling reprocessed goods back into the market has been exposed. The entire repackaging process is done by workers with bare hands, without any hygiene or disinfection measures. This news was revealed on March 15th during China’s Consumer Rights Day.

Under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), counterfeit products are rampant in China. Every year on China’s Consumer Rights Day, the CCP’s CCTV’s “3.15” evening program exposes one or two secrets of counterfeit products to appease the growing dissatisfaction and expectations of the people.

This year, the CCP’s CCTV “3.15” evening program exposed many brands of reprocessed goods, including sanitary napkins, diapers, and disposable underwear being sold in the market.

Reportedly, the “Liangshan Xixi Paper Products Co., Ltd.” in Liangshan County, Shandong Province specifically acquires substandard products that regular enterprises should have eliminated and, after selecting those with intact shapes and no obvious stains or damages labeled as “second-class products,” repackages and sells them based on different specifications.

The company collects sanitary napkins and diapers that regular enterprises should have shredded and disposed of at extremely low prices ranging from 260 to 1400 yuan per ton. At the company site, there are several well-known mother and baby brands such as Miffy, Manxi, Zhongyi Maternity and Infant, Haoyi, and Babycare. During the entire repackaging process, workers handle the products with their bare hands, without any hygiene or disinfection measures.

These repackaged sanitary napkins and diapers lack any brand or factory address information on the packaging bags. Nevertheless, they are being resold in the market for as much as seven to eight thousand yuan per ton.

The company’s head, Mr. Liu, stated that their main business is waste recycling, meaning they specialize in purchasing defective products and production waste such as scraps and leftovers from diaper and sanitary napkin manufacturers.

In China, many popular disposable underwear brands are labeled with “EO sterilization, wear directly without washing” and “antibacterial rate up to 99%.” However, manufacturers of disposable underwear admitted that not conducting sterilization and disinfection treatment is an open secret in the industry.

In the clothing processing enterprises in Shangqiu City, Henan Province, where many disposable underwear brands are produced, the factory premises are extremely dirty, with dust everywhere. Workers handle the products with bare hands, and raw materials are haphazardly piled up. Besides fabric, there are piles of garbage and debris, and messy woven bags filled with disposable underwear ready for the market.

Workers use spray guns to spray a special liquid on the underwear, which is not a disinfectant but a strong, quick-drying stain remover that should not be touched directly by hand.

Staff revealed that because sterilization costs money, they can only boast “ethylene oxide disinfection” on the product packaging box without actually doing it.

A company called Jianzhichu Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. even provides “processing on behalf” services for some branded products, producing items like “Chuyisheng” disposable bras, “Beiziyan” disposable underwear, and “Lansha” disposable underwear. The company’s staff admitted that, in order to control costs, some products are not sterilized or disinfected.