Friday, January 21, 2000, updated at 18:01(GMT+8) Sci-TechSDA Bans Online Sales of Medicine
The Supervisory Drug Administration (SDA) has temporarily banned the sales of drugs on the Internet. Shao Mingli, vice minister of SDA, pointed out that the buyer and seller in an online transaction are completely isolated, avoiding the supervision of intermediary links, thus, the SDA is unable to protect people from unsafe or fraudulent medicine.