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Group not authorized to approve products
By Sun Xiaohua (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-10 05:40
NCOH also set up a foundation for holding some oral health education
programmes. The foundation was reported to have received large sums of donations
from oral health producers. The biggest donation, 10 million yuan (US$1.25
million), was from the P&G Group. And Beijing Times also reported that in
the contract between NCOH and the Snow Leopard Household Chemical Co Ltd, the
company needed to donate 100,000 yuan (US$12,500) to the foundation annually.
Although Zhang said that all the funds were and will be used in education or
other public interest programmes, he could not provide the audit report.
The NCOH was set up in November 2003 under the approval of the Ministry of
Health for promoting oral health among the public. Although Zhang said the
committee had 55 members of experts and officials, none of them are full time.
"I think the country should strengthen its management on such institutes,"
said Luo Yuan, an English teacher in Nanjing University of Technology.
"Now there are too many so-called experts, especially in
ads. It is to sway and persuade consumers."
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