Shanghai will regulate the local health-care products market to protect wild animals, Xinwen Morning News reported yesterday.

The effort followed an announcement by the State Ministry of Public Health last Saturday to stop sales of health-care products with components of the country's first and second level protected wild animals.

The city's Public Health Bureau will cooperate with the municipal Wild Life Protection Committee to regulate the sector.

A list of products permitted no future sales will be announced to the public soon, official said.

The city now sells nearly 1,000 kinds of health-care products.

(Eastday.com.cn 06/25/2001)