A tiny drop of a non-Chinese medicine is enough to allow Hong Kong manufacturers to evade registering their product as Chinese medicine – and thus greater scrutiny – thanks to a legal loophole.
Under the Chinese Medicine Ordinance, a Chinese medicine is defined as any product composed solely of, for example, any Chinese herbal medicine, or any materials of herbal, animal or mineral original customarily used by the Chinese.
It means manufacturers could simply circumvent the ordinance...
↧