BEIJING (Reuters) - China will ban health supplement makers from naming their products after sex, God or eternal life, state media said on Tuesday, in an attempt to stop an unregulated industry from using vulgarity and superstition to sell pills.
China's State Food and Drug Administration will outlaw words it classed as "vulgar or linked with superstition, such as: sex, God, immortal," from the names of health products, according to the report on official news agency Xinhua.
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