Gross sales of health foods top W700 bil. in 2006

The Korea Food and Drug Administration announced on October 30 that the total output of 45 health foods stood at 12,269 ton last year and that their gross sales posted 700.8 billion won, up 2.2 percent compared with 685.6 from a year earlier.

The combined sales of five leading products red ginseng, aloe, nutritional supplements, glucosamine and ordinary ginseng marked 508.2 billion w...