Govt to boost scrutiny of health items

Analyst says new rules needed, as oversight of sector in past was 'weak'

China's top market regulatory authority vowed to intensify its fight against irregularities in the healthcare products sector this year, amid recent nationwide campaigns that have placed some of China's biggest sellers of health products under investigation.

"Learning lessons from the case of the Tianjin Quanjian company, we have made plans to regulate the health products sector, which is rampant with irregularities," Zhang Mao, minister of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said in an interview on China Central Television.