Police crackdown on selling of counterfeit AQUAGOLD® Fine Touch

Police have started a criminal investigation into the selling of counterfeit, AQUAGOLD® Fine Touch™. Authorities seized the products from a booth at convention in Korea as evidence and interrogated sales representatives. The company was displaying AQUAGOLD® trademarks, videos and counterfeit products during the show. 

Counterfeit products are often made of non-medical grade materials and in the facilities that do not follow quality assurance requirements. Some of the main safety concerns are that they include cheap industrial plastic of unknown origin and non-surgical grade steel and glass and that they have no 24-carat gold plating and no micro channels (instead they have been found to have straight needles with large holes on the plastic cover. There are also concerns over irregular and random thickness and length of needles and no proper sterilisation processes, with dust and hair found in counterfeit devices. 

A spokesperson for AQUAGOLD® said, “Using such products poses a safety risk to patients and interferes with any improvement or advance in the technology and innovation.”