More news on meds! News article from Reuters:
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
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Shares of Ruinian International (2010.HK), the country's largest maker of amino acid health supplements, fell 16 percent on Tuesday after reports one of its products failed a drug quality test earlier this year. Chief financial officer Philip Poon said the product was found to contain much lower levels of amino acids than stated in its packaging.
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Why is it all of a sudden that all these tests about Chinese medicines start pouring out? What might be next? Could it be the herbal drinks? The Chinese herbal supplements? Chinese candies? Tortoise Jelly / Guilinggao?
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Image from LeeAnn
Chinese Hawthorn Fruit (山楂) |
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Vocabulary:
supplement -- (n)[C] something which is added to something else in order to improve it or complete it; something extra
Resources:
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/07/drink-hung-fook-tong-herbal-drinks.html
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/07/news-and-vocabulary-bawang-and-chinese.html
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/01/health-and-fitness-liquorice-root-2nd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus_pinnatifida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siraitia_grosvenorii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_orange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycodon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilinggao
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/supplement_1
http://www.hungfooktong.com/products_1_1.php?language=en
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/lifestyles/chinese_tea_traditional.html
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