• A shopper walks past a woman at a counter displaying cosmetics at a shopping mall in Beijing

A shopper walks past a woman at a counter displaying cosmetics at a shopping mall in Beijing (Photo : REUTERS/David Gray)

China's National Medical Products Administration said on Monday that it had launched a crackdown on online and offline sales of illegal cosmetics.

The regulator said on its website that it would inspect medical claims made by cosmetic products and clean up sales of unregistered cosmetic products.

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