"Health mooncakes" do not health casual use of medicinal herbs is illegal.

Original title: "Health mooncakes" do not health casual use of medicinal materials is illegal
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Zhu Yi, associate professor of the School of Food Science and Nutrition Engineering, China Agricultural University
ChineseMin university food safety governance collaborative innovation center researcher Sun Wei
mooncakes should not be randomly added Chinese herbs
Reporter: Mid-Autumn near, in WeChat friends circle, major shopping sites, some playing "health" sign "net red mooncakes" began to play. At present, China's health market demand is strong, playing the "health" sign "net red moon cake" can be described as "targeting the market, accurate launch." Our investigation found that many moon cakes still have insufficient materials, illegal labeling, and even illegal addition of medicinal ingredients and other issues. In particular, this year's market appearance of a variety of health moon cakes also claim to have a role in nourishing yin.
: First of all, the relevant departments of the state every year will send a reminder that health care moon cakes belong to false propaganda, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration has never approved health care moon cakes. Therefore, if a business claims that their mooncakes have health functions, or even that their mooncakes can cure the disease, it is illegal.
, the flag of health belongs to the edge ball, we need to see what its so-called health ingredients are. For example, common grains can be added to mooncakes, but adding them does not mean healthy mooncakes. Moon cakes added grains, its taste will be very rough, in order to improve the taste of moon cakes, producers will add a lot of oil to adjust, so consumers can not be blinded by grains or other ingredients, to carefully look at the nutritional content, ingredients, such as the proportion of use.
As for adding medicinal ingredients to moon cakes, you can add ginseng, mountain silver flowers, roses, summer herbs and other medicinal ingredients of the same origin, but in addition to the medicinal ingredients are prohibited.
Sun Wei: As far as the mooncake market is concerned, there is still a shortage of materials, illegal labeling phenomenon, this is a long-standing problem of food fraud. Since the EU horse meat storm, this economic interest-driven but harmless food safety food fraud has once again become a hot spot and focus in the field of food regulation, including ingredients on the work cut, second-best, misleading information on the logo and so on. However, in the event of a violation of the addition of harmful ingredients or medicinal ingredients, it may become a food safety problem due to health hazards. Therefore, Article 38 of the Food Safety Law clearly stipulates that "drugs may not be added to food production and operation, but substances that are both food and Chinese herbal medicines may be added in accordance with tradition." In accordance with tradition, the catalogue of substances that are both food and Chinese herbal medicines shall be formulated and published by the administrative department of health under the State Council in cooperation with the food and drug supervision and administration department under the State Council".
If Article 123 of the Food Safety Law stipulates that the existence of "the production of food from non-food raw materials, the addition of chemical substances other than food additives to food and other substances that may endanger human health, or the production of food from recycled food as raw materials, or the operation of the above-mentioned food", the food and drug supervision and administration department of the people's government at or above the county level shall confiscate the illegal proceeds and illegal production and operation of food, and may confiscate the tools used for illegal production and operation. , equipment, raw materials and other items; if the value of food goods in illegal production and operation is less than 10,000 yuan, and the value of the goods is not more than 10,000 yuan, and the value of goods is more than fifteen times and thirty times the fine; if the circumstances are serious, the license shall be revoked and the person in charge and other persons directly responsible for it may be detained for not more than five days and not more than 15 days.
the provisions of the Food Safety Law, the exception is that a substance that is both a food and a Herbal medicine may be added and a list of such substances may be formulated by the competent national authorities. In this regard, food producers, including mooncakes, should choose which substances to add, in accordance with the list of items that are both food and medicine. Correspondingly, Chinese herbal medicines, such as d'ad and 37, which can be used for health food, shall not be added to food as raw materials for ordinary food.
new national standard for mooncakes needs to be enhanced practical
Reporter: In 2015, the State Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection and the National Standards Commission announced GB/T19855-2015 "mooncakes" national standards. The new national standard for moon cakes filling content, ingredients, etc. made clear. Despite the implementation of the new national standard, but in the eyes of many consumers, the moon cake market has not been completely resolved.
: Mooncake new national standard belongs to a recommended standard, not a mandatory standard, its enforcement force is limited. Moreover, some of the provisions in the new national standard for mooncakes are difficult to measure. For example, nuts can not be less than 20 percent, fruit content can not be less than a quarter, these are not good to measure in the testing process. In addition, some consumers also have problems with consumer psychology. Some consumers do not care about the exact composition of moon cakes, but are keen to pursue some under the banner of health and other "net red mooncakes", and will think that a few times a year can not eat moon cakes, so pay more attention to appearance, taste and so on.
now, some aspects of the new national standard of mooncakes need to be made more practical in order to show the significance of the standard.
Sun Yu: Mooncake new national standard as a national recommended standard, its definition and classification of moon cakes to help consumers identify different kinds of moon cakes, to prevent such as mooncake name confusion, nameless and other fraud. Consumers have the right to know the true situation of the food they purchase when it is not intuitively judged, which can be regulated by measurement supervision. For example, the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Measurement of Quantitative Packaging Goods stipulate that producers and sellers of quantitatively packaged goods shall correctly and clearly label the net content of quantitatively packaged goods in a prominent position in their commodity packaging. Moreover, the average actual content of batch quantitative packaging goods should be greater than or equal to its net label content, otherwise, ordered to correct, and may be inspected the value of the batch of less than 3 times, the maximum fine of not more than 30,000 yuan.
Net-selling mooncake market needs special rectification
reporter: health is not a day's work, generally to go through a certain course of treatment, but mooncakes are time food, often only eat once or twice, want to achieve some effect is impossible. There are even sellers admitted that moon cake fillings and other work is more complex, some are actually bought online, and some homemade moon cakes are actually produced by manufacturers, and then under the banner of health, private cooking, in WeChat or micro-stores for sale, but a marketing means.
: the emergence of new tastes, new varieties, can be said to be the market spontaneous behavior in response to the diverse demands of consumers. Although moon cakes are traditional food, and moon cake standards are introduced to regulate the use of various traditional names, in order to ensure the authenticity of moon cakes and consumers' right to know and choose. However, if the product itself does not keep pace with the times of innovation, may also be the current demand for different consumers eliminated. Therefore, the regulation of moon cakes also needs to take into account such factors, in order to protect the interests of consumers at the same time to provide new possibilities for the development of food products, and timely regulation of relevant product names and strengthen the supervision of food additives to prevent consumer fraud.
: There are industrial and commercial administrative law enforcement officials told reporters that they are currently mainly highlighted in shopping malls, supermarkets and other areas of circulation of food quality spot checks and inspections. The Food Safety Law stipulates that a third-party platform for online food trading must require food providers to obtain food production and operation permits and assume responsibility for food safety management; However, from a practical point of view, for online sales of "health moon cakes", the network platform seems to be out of reach.
: There are some regulatory problems with selling all kinds of handmade mooncakes online. For those who are under supervision by large-scale enterprises to produce moon cakes, in some people's eyes there will be regulatory form of doubt, then this kind of small family workshop production of unregulated moon cakes, why believe that it is safe?
many items are now sold online, some not even on e-commerce platforms, but in WeChat's circle of friends, for these cases, regulation is more difficult. I think the most important thing at present is to cultivate and raise consumer awareness.
: Health care is a kind of healthy consumption demand that consumers pay close attention to at present. In view of the tradition of the same origin of chinese medicine, although it can be promoted by food therapy, but in terms of a certain type of food, how to maintain health is the need to use a certain amount of substances and its functions to achieve. When the purpose of health food use is to protect and promote health, its function claims that there is no such option as health. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to combat the use of "health" propaganda to mislead consumers, on the other hand, we also need to consider the consumption demands of advancing with the times, with the help of clear terminology and definition, to regulate the emergence of the market from the nutritional, production methods and other aspects of new food claims. For the online mooncake marketing channels and methods promoted by the development of the network platform, the existing regulations for online food sales and advertising are the basis for combating illegal online sales of mooncakes. With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, special types of remediation and risk exchange also help to ensure the safety of consumers' mooncake consumption during the holiday period, protect their right to know and the right to choose. (Zhao Li)