Dr. Steve Li, medical consultant to the Shark Rich Company, says that Western scientists first discovered that cartilage from calves has an anticarcinogenic effect. But a calf's body only contains limited amounts of cartilage; so the cartilage to be found throughout sharks 'bodies became an important material for Western medical research over the last 20 years.
鯊維克公司首席醫療顧問黎宗翰表示，西方科學家最早發現小牛軟骨有抗癌作用，但小牛身上軟骨有限；鯊魚全身的軟骨，就成了過去廿年西方醫學界研究的重要材料。