Supplementary blood pressure and other five health food functions will be cancelled

Business News Agency August 4th News August 1, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Health Food Functional Scope Adjustment Plan (Draft for Comment)" (hereinafter referred to as the Exposure Draft), to solicit opinions from all sectors of society. According to the plan, the five functions of improving growth and development, assisting radiation damage, improving skin moisture, improving skin oil, and assisting in lowering blood pressure are planned to be cancelled.

It is reported that the functional range adjustment of health foods aims to implement the food safety law and its implementation regulations for the strict supervision of health food requirements, to further improve the functional evaluation methods, improve the judgment criteria, standardize the functional claims, and strict barriers to entry.

The draft of the Opinions proposes that the reason for canceling the function of “improving growth and development” is to encourage the use of a reasonable and balanced diet to ensure the growth and development of children and children, and it is not appropriate to use health food for intervention. In addition, juvenile children are subject to higher risks. Therefore, trials of juvenile children in human trials are currently not advocated. Current evaluation criteria and methods have limitations. The reason why the "adjuvant blood pressure lowering" function was proposed to be canceled is that health foods have a higher risk of setting up blood pressure lowering aids. If consumers do not understand this type of product clearly and use it improperly, it is easy to produce danger.