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Hello, welcome to Roundtable, where we serve up piping hot debates on the issues that sizzle in China and beyond.
I'm Nao Honglin.
Senator, Products are something we don't often talk about until something goes wrong.
Imagine reading a news story about a brand you trust only to find out they've been cutting corners on the very thing you rely on.
Now, what happens when some of these essential products aren't just falling short in length, but in quality and hygiene too?
Is it a corporate cost cutting move?
Or is there a deeper issue in how we view the standards for such personal products?
For this episode, I'm joined by Fei Fei and Lai Ming.
Now grab your virtual compass and follow us to the heart of the discussion.
As women, we buy menstrual products to meet a very basic need, comfort and protection.
But what if the very products we trust are misleading us, cutting corners and failing to meet their advertised standards?
Starting 2025, China will roll out new national standards for sanitary pads.
These updated regulations aim to make a difference from safety to environmental impact.
And these topics have been heatedly discussed on China's social media.
Starting from the new national standards, what should be included in these new reg and later on to be going into the area of certain bloggers or social media influencers started to do personal, not very scientific, but definitely with a lot of personal experience kind of experiments on different brands and different types of these different products.
And let's talk a little bit about what is happening or what are some of the key issues here in at least the news coverage and also social media platforms.
Well, what's going on is a lot of people all over the Internet are having a very heated discussion about the practice in the industry practiced by many players in the industry.
According to a recent article by the Beijing News, a social media blogger bought products of nearly 10 sanitary pad brands and measured their length with a ruler.