[NB] BoA under investigation for attempting to smuggle Zolpidem

[namidaone]

7 hours ago, melancholic autumn said:

They mentioned that the ones she took in Korea gave her some bad side effects. I'm guessing there's some slight differences in non-active ingredients or something (have never taken it before so I'm just throwing out possibilities).

KFDA supposedly has quality control guidelines like bioequivalence studies to ensure that alt/generic brands are bioequivalent (i.e same efficacy, same risks, same side effects, etc) to the original brand even if they have diff non-active ingredients. 
Korea is also a member of WHO which also has bioequivalence guidelines.  
So if the zolpidem fr Korea causes bad side effects while the zolpidem fr Japan doesn't,
this raises huge questions about SK's drug quality control, which already had issues w/ drug testing fraud in 2006 [x] and the valsartan incident in 2018 [x].

But SM's official statement never mentioned if those ones (fr KR w/c gave her bad side effects) was zolpidem or not. 
We only know that one of the meds ordered from Japan was zolpidem based on the news articles about the investigation. [x]  

 

[persephone]

Oh no. I hope this won't be Park Bom 2.0.

[Poised]

What I can't stand is some big news outlet is reporting this like Sawajiri Erika's case. When BoA is actually not like Erika. It's just sleeping pills. Which imo is just blown out of proportion due to issues with the stricter guidelines and procedure. Now some untruth and not so good rumor is spread thru word of mouth (gossip) by knetz.

[sakurahanabira]

3 hours ago, Poised said:

What I can't stand is some big news outlet is reporting this like Sawajiri Erika's case. When BoA is actually not like Erika. It's just sleeping pills. Which imo is just blown out of proportion due to issues with the stricter guidelines and procedure. Now some untruth and not so good rumor is spread thru word of mouth (gossip) by knetz.

wait why are you bringing up Erika Sawajiri? Are Japanese news media comparing BoA to her or something?

[gokigen]

BoA can say thank you to BtoB's Ilhoon now.

[RosaRosa]

On 12/17/2020 at 10:05 PM, Tarted said:

All of this just because of a freAKinG zolpidem???? a drug for insomnia issues!!!  SK need to chill out 

Seriously!