en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_sinensis
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their sale has been strictly regulated by China's State Administration for Market Regulation since 2016.
This names the wrong regulator for 2016. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) did not exist until March 2018; the 2016 cordyceps action was issued by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA).
Full reasoning
The claim is incorrect because it attributes 2016 regulation to an agency that had not yet been created.
- An official State Council report says "the State Administration for Market Regulation [was] established in March" 2018.
- The 2016 cordyceps regulatory action was instead taken by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). An official 2016 government repost states that the 国家食品药品监督管理总局 (CFDA) issued a notice stopping the pilot program that allowed cordyceps in health foods.
So the article’s statement is wrong in at least the institutional attribution: regulation in 2016 was by CFDA/State Food and Drug Administration, not by SAMR. A more accurate phrasing would be that cordyceps products were regulated by China’s food-and-drug regulator in 2016, with SAMR only existing from 2018 onward.
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- China moves to improve market supervision
China has been pushing for more unified, effective market regulation, with the State Administration for Market Regulation established in March as part of the reform of government institutions.
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