HARBIN, China, June 22 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: CSKI), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company producing over-the-counter drugs in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced that it obtained a renewal of its license for the production its proprietary Sumei Slim Patch from Heilongjiang Provincial FDA, which will be effective through April of 2013. Categorized as a medical device, the document number for the renewed SFDA approval of the Sumei Slim Patch is 2640029.
The Sumei Slim Patch is one of the Company's best selling products, accounting for 22% of total revenues in 2008. It is marketed and sold as a natural way to lose weight and has been shown to be 76.9% effective in clinical trials. Active ingredients in the Sumei Slim Patch include plant volatile oils and saponins, a class of chemical compounds found to regulate and restrain excessive secretion of certain hormones in order to foster weight loss. The Sumei Slim Patch, which employs the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), has become a widely accepted weight loss product in China, Southeastern Asia, and in other countries and regions of the world. There are quite a few reputable pharmaceutical companies and beauty product companies that have been marketing similar weight loss products in patch form, such as the "Perfect Slim Patch" from L'Oreal. Since the beginning of 2008, China Sky One Medical has sold over 7 million units of its Slim Patch around the world.
"Clinical trials conducted by the Heilongjiang Province Hospital have
shown that the Sumei Slim Patch is a highly effective medical device that is a
safe and reliable method for treating obesity based on the World Health
Organization (WHO) definition of that term," said Mr. Yan-Qing
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