The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China has issued a circular which asks for a nationwide campaign to be carried out from now till May 15, 2009 on the household utensils.

News from Guangdong Provincial Consumers' Commission is that five types of hair dye products, including some from Revlon, have been found to contain m-phenylenediamine, a listed carcinogen.

Sweden-based Orexo and the Chinese pharmaceutical company NovaMed Pharmaceuticals have signed an exclusive licensing and distribution agreement that grants NovaMed rights to seek approval for the marketing and distributing of Abstral Orexo´s product for treatment of breakthrough cancer pain in mainland China and, if granted, to market and sell the product in that market.

Tests conducted in China on many brands of shampoo claiming to make people's hair black have shown that these so-called shampoos are actually hair dyes and they contain harmful chemicals such as phenylenediamine.

China Medical Technologies has completed its previously announced acquisition of the entire interest in Beijing Bio-Ekon Biotechnology Co., Ltd.