China's health food industry, the market situation facing five major problems - health foods - F

The origin of the Chinese health food diet health has a long tradition for thousands of years, the Chinese nation in the fight against various diseases and the process of practice, reviewed and developed a unique traditional Medicine Science has accumulated a large number of health care experience, forming with Chinese characteristics, health-care health promotion. As a traditional Chinese medicine medicine and health culture, health food in China developed an important theoretical basis and effective material source, but also the development of health food products in China's unique advantages.

Regulatory functions of the change in 1995, "Food Hygiene" to determine the legal status of health food products, the Ministry of Health is responsible for the supervision and management of health food products in 1996 formulated the "Measures for the Administration of health food products", carried out the health food registration application exercise then successively promulgated the "health food logo" and the "health food general health requirements," "health food function evaluation procedures and test methods", "Ministry of Health on the standard health food technology transfer notice" and the "Ministry of Health for further regulate health food materials management, "and other series of provisions, in 2003, the registration of transfer of functions of health food States Food and Drug Administration, the same year, the State Food and Drug Administration conducted the registration of health food products in 2005 formulated the" health food Registration (for Trial Implementation) ", and gradually developed a" health food on-site verification requirement "," Application and Evaluation of nutrient supplements the provisions of "and other relevant provisions of 8," named the provisions of health food "and supporting the management of health food registration documents In 2008, health food hygiene supervision of the transfer of functions from the Ministry of Health, State Food and Drug Administration. 2009 " Food Safety Law "and its implementing regulations further defined the food and drug supervision and management departments should exercise strict supervision of health food products.

Five problems facing the health food market

1. Health food laws and regulations are not sound, crack down on production Sell Behavior of the lack of legal basis

Present "Food Safety Law" and its implementing regulations have been promulgated, only clear the food and drug supervision and management departments in the implementation of strict control of health food, health food varieties of management, supervision of production and distribution chain is not clear that "health food Supervision and Management Regulations "has not yet issued, the lack of legal basis for regulation of health food products, affecting the health food production and management and supervision work.

2. Illegal Add prohibited items occur when

Some enterprises function to highlight the effect of the product without authorization to add in the health food prohibited items, such as Lose weight Add ephedrine products illegally; in illegal anti-fatigue product Add Juyuan sildenafil; in promoting growth and development of products added in the growth hormone and other illegal, posing a health hazard to consumers.

3. Illegal production of individual enterprises, there are security risks

Individual enterprises have passed the health food good manufacturing practice review, but in the actual production process, in order to save production costs, in violation of health food production process, good manufacturing practice requirements. In addition, health food production and processing of the phenomenon of ordinary commission, but entrusted the responsibility of each of the parties was not sufficiently clear or difficult to define the implementation of some processing methods to increase the health food contaminated areas, is difficult to guarantee product quality, while off-site processing has also commissioned increase the difficulty in monitoring the health food. There are individual enterprises are not in accordance with the approved formula, technical organization of production, product quality can not guarantee, to the left product safety hazards.

4. Illegal health food despite repeated prohibitions Some of these products theft

health food approval number, and some fraudulent use of Health Products Logo, some will be ordinary food as health food publicity, some of the production operations of fake and shoddy health food, etc., thus seriously disrupting the health food market. Some carry out the "expert advice", "free testing", "free clinics" and other activities, the trust of the consumer fraud to induce the purchase of products; some large number of leaflets, sent an invitation to organize seminars and other activities, will be gathered to temporary rented theaters, sports venues and other public places, inducing consumers to purchase its marketing products indiscriminately increased the difficulty of supervision.