China says no pills made from human flesh in country
A photo released by the Korea Customs Service shows capsules filled with powdered human flesh in Daejeon, officials say.
May 8th, 2012
10:48 AM ET

China says no pills made from human flesh in country

Medications made of human tissue have not been found in China, the country's Health Ministry said Tuesday after reports a day earlier that pills made from the flesh of dead babies were smuggled from China into South Korea.

Chinese authorities will conduct an investigation into reports that the capsules, allegedly made from aborted fetuses, were made in China, Deng Haihua, a spokesman for China's Health Ministry, said in a report from the state-run Xinhua news agency. Similar allegations were investigated in August, and nothing was found to substantiate them, he said.

Deng said China has strict regulations to ensure that such a thing could not occur.

According to a report in the Korea Times, 29 smugglers of "human-flesh capsules" have been arrested after trying to bring 11,000 pills into the country while disguised as tourists.

More than 35 cases and more than 17,000 pills have been found by customs authorities since August, the South Korean website Dong-A Ilbo reported. 

The pills are taken by people who believe they may help increase stamina, for rejuvenation or by terminal cancer patients, according to the South Korean reports.

soundoff (264 Responses)
  1. Smash the Racist Han Chinese

    The Chinese government is SO arrogant.

    May 8, 2012 at 11:57 pm | Report abuse |
  2. Calvin and Hobbs

    WhiteKongFittyNine, what language are you speaking? Cuz it sure isn't english.

    May 8, 2012 at 11:57 pm | Report abuse |
  3. nelson

    China should stop reckless.
    So much pirating, substandard products to Africa, unfair currency policies and then human flesh! disgusting.
    Where is UN, WTO etc? somebody has got to stop this madness.

    May 9, 2012 at 6:05 am | Report abuse |
  4. tdsd

    It's the CIA and the Dalai Lama.

    May 9, 2012 at 9:53 am | Report abuse |
  5. Snacklefish

    Of course they don't, because no one ever ignores regulations.

    May 9, 2012 at 11:40 am | Report abuse |
  6. Steven

    this is friggin disgusting! if this is true and they are made in chin then the USA needs to break off all tires with the RED Chinese heathens!

    May 9, 2012 at 12:27 pm | Report abuse |
    • truthordare7

      @ steven, too late, steven. You guys probably eat a lot of human powder in the foods and other items shipped already. It is the joke of the century. But cut off all the trades relations with these sick people for real!

      May 9, 2012 at 1:59 pm | Report abuse |
  7. Mary

    Human flesh? Maybe...maybe not. I wouldn't be surprised that they're putting cadmium in the pills.

    May 9, 2012 at 3:41 pm | Report abuse |
  8. banasy©

    I've had these pills while in China and let me tell you, they do not taste like dead babies. But they do make you virile! Grrrrrrrr, big boy!

    May 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm | Report abuse |
    • dentate

      And you would know what dead babies taste like because....?

      May 10, 2012 at 3:18 pm | Report abuse |
  9. Denny

    Makes me feel really ill.

    May 10, 2012 at 7:07 am | Report abuse |
  10. Neil

    right on china, you run with that !!!
    LOL

    May 10, 2012 at 9:09 am | Report abuse |
  11. its your turn

    Soylent Green the movie seems to becoming fact. China stands for “Capsules have inside, natal ashes”

    May 10, 2012 at 9:35 am | Report abuse |
  12. Paulo

    Chinese will eat, drink, or swallow anything, and I mean anything, if they think it will keep their junk hard. Rhinos, gorillas, human babies – whatever it takes to increase their libido.

    May 10, 2012 at 10:01 am | Report abuse |
    • Sara

      Case in point. You have little knowledge, and your accusations are based on your own racist beliefs.

      May 10, 2012 at 6:03 pm | Report abuse |
  13. the truther

    If they were atheist this wouldn't have happened

    May 10, 2012 at 4:43 pm | Report abuse |
  14. Sara

    Wow. This seems to always become the podium for people to blast their racism and stereotypical garbage other cultures. If any one from another part of the world would read this and decide to use the same level of stereotypes and racism we use in America, they would simply write us off as a bunch of ignorant, uneducated racists. Fortunately, I know better about China as well as the US.

    May 10, 2012 at 6:02 pm | Report abuse |
  15. Wow

    And who would want to do this. I mean come on this i just weird. I would not want to take pills of dead baby flesh cause that is just weird and who knows what happened to those baby's. They could have killed them on purpouse and if they did why would you do that so that someone can take the pill and then you get all of the money. I'm sorry but that i just really weird. I am so glad that I do not live in China cause it seems like a lot of people there do weird things and who knows what else and we in the USA have no idea cause we dont go over and say hey are you doing something to dead baby's. I just hope that the dead baby's did not have to suffer so they can be made up into pills.

    May 10, 2012 at 6:37 pm | Report abuse |
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