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Article: China to Straight out Health Food Market
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 30, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Health authorities are almost set to drive thousands of health
foods from the country's shop shelves in a move to bring the
industry
under good control.
This will probably bring the number of health foods available in
the market down to as few as 30, compared to the 3,000 currently
available.
Even the figure of 3,000 registered health foods is low, compared
to the 20,000 which experts say are on sale, mostly unregistered
products.
The China Consumers Journal quoted an official from the Ministry
of Public Health (MPH) as saying that people will probably only have
30 kinds of health food to choose from next year.
The clampdown is part of the country's efforts to control its
health food market, ...