Improve health food laws and regulations to create a good environment for development.

. Liang Wenwen Reporter
If an industry wants to develop by leaps and bounds, it must have matching industry standards and systems. The development of health food industry 20 years, but also the development of health food regulatory system 20 years. In order to purify the health food market and provide consumers with healthy and reliable health food, the State Administration of Food and Drug Administration has carried out a series of reforms in the supervision system, strengthened the supervision of special foods, and standardized the health food review and approval procedures. , Director of the Special Food Registration Management Department of the State Food and Drug Administration, said
If an industry wants to develop by leaps and bounds, it must have matching industry standards and systems. The development of health food industry 20 years, but also the development of health food regulatory system 20 years. Since the development of the health care products supervision system, it has experienced three periods: 1996-2003, the period of the former Ministry of Health, 2003-2013, the period of management of the former State Food and Drug Administration, and the period of the State Administration of Food and Drug Administration from 2013 to the present. Industry development promotes the reform of the system, and each reform is to better promote the development of the industry. In the field of health food, what industry background is the implementation of the new regulatory programme based on? What is the current state of development? In response to these questions, Wang Hong, Director of the Special Food Registration Administration Department of the State Food and Drug Administration, answered for the public.
New Deal
In recent years, the health food industry has developed rapidly, but it has also exposed many problems, the most prominent of which is the lack of clear product positioning. Not only are consumers faced with complex commodity information is not clear, industry producers and operators on the positioning of products is not clear, more serious is that some grass-roots regulators on the positioning of certain products is not clear.
Illegal addition has become a constraint on the development of the health food industry, although the overall pass rate of health food has reached 98%, but there are still problems of illegal addition, especially many enterprises for the "safe addition" and "legal compliance addition" of the two concepts do not have a clear distinction. Although sometimes adding a certain amount of food additives does not lead to
food safety
problems, but with the law and regulations, this is also an illegal addition prohibited. Enterprises in the addition of some raw materials or additives, to learn the relevant laws and standards, in order to ensure the legal compliance of products.
Some enterprises sell products that exaggerate propaganda and mislead consumers, such as a health food promotion that it can treat a disease and improve human functions, but in practice these claims are not supported by scientific evidence; False propaganda, exaggerated publicity will cause a great deal of misleading to consumers, resulting in delays in the disease, endangering health.
Some enterprises in the marketing use of marketing methods in violation of state regulations, such as direct marketing is approved by the relevant state departments of enterprises can use marketing means, but some enterprises or individuals to drill the law of the void, illegal marketing, disrupt market development.
in order to purify the health food market and provide consumers with healthy and reliable health food, the State Administration of Food and Drug Administration has carried out a series of reforms in the regulatory system, strengthened the supervision of special foods, and standardized the health food review and approval procedures.
National new policy principles are many
laws and regulations are formulated to regulate the development of the industry, so in the formulation, the decision-making department will consider the current situation of the industry, to develop suitable for the industry norms. Wang Hong introduced that special food registration and supervision in general to achieve "adherence to a guide, lock two objectives, clarify three responsibilities, deepen four considerations, uphold five concepts."
Adhere to a guide: law enforcement departments in the course of law enforcement should adhere to the important spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of speeches as a guide, firmly grasp the Party and the country's new ideas, new ideas, new strategies, in accordance with the most stringent standards, the most stringent supervision, the most severe punishment, the most serious accountability of the "four most stringent" requirements to implement, to achieve strict prevention at the source, strict control of the process, strict risk control, to ensure the safety of the broad masses of the people on the tip of the tongue.
two goals: the new policy was introduced to achieve two goals. First, to ensure special
food
effective fundamental goal. Compared with ordinary food, consumers need more financial input in health food. To be effective is to protect consumers' economic expectations. Second, to ensure the sustained and healthy development of the special food industry long-term goal. "Healthy China 2030" makes enterprises and consumers for the health industry demand highlighted, health industry is a sunrise industry, should be based on this, to ensure the long-term development of special food industry.
three responsibilities: a strong industry needs strong regulation to support it, and strong regulation requires industry support. Applicants, technical review agencies and administrative departments should achieve the "trinity", all of which should assume their own responsibilities. First of all, the applicant should implement the main responsibility, responsible for authenticity. For example, the verification of product functions can not have false data, product quality and safety inspection, product results need to be based on science. Secondly, the technical evaluation body should implement the responsibility of technical control and be responsible for science. Finally, the executive branch should implement regulatory responsibilities and be responsible for legal compliance. In the approval process, enterprises should be responsible before submitting application materials, the administrative department does not participate in the submission and collation of enterprise application materials, after submitting application materials, the administrative departments involved in administrative examination and approval of the integrity of enterprise materials, authenticity and basis for strict examination and clearance, the enterprise's production site verification, the enterprise's products for smoking inspection certificate, only in this way can change the past unclear responsibility situation.
four considerations: the State Food and Drug Administration in the formulation of a new approval system, there are four considerations. First, the consideration of product positioning, merchants in the sales process, health food and ordinary food should be distinguished, such as ordinary food must not have the function to claim to ensure the uniqueness of functional food claims;
five concepts: in the registration and supervision process, enterprises and regulators should uphold the following five concepts. First, to abide by the "rule of law" concept, enterprises only unified voice, unified action to develop, in order to grow. No rules are not square, to regulate the order of the industry, we must establish the corresponding laws and regulations. After determining the legislation, the regulatory authorities should strictly implement it in accordance with the corresponding laws and regulations, that is, legislation first, strict enforcement of the law. Second, registration and approval need to have a "scientific" concept, enterprises apply for registration or filing must have sufficient scientific basis, in order to enter the next approval process. Expert approval and then on-site verification, confirmation of inspection reports, each step should run through the "scientific" concept. Third, the concept of "consolidation and reform" is equally important, on the one hand, the regulatory authorities should vigorously promote and participate in the food, health food fraud and false propaganda activities organized by the State Council Food Safety Office and other nine ministries, and make efforts to rectify illegal and illegal activities. On the other hand, we should pay close to the reform, strengthen the system construction and mechanism construction, and strive to eliminate the disadvantages from the top-level design. Fourth, uphold the "put, tube, clothing" combination of the concept. "Put" is mainly reflected in the review center to further promote the health food filing system management and special food verification and evaluation technology institutions filing system management; Fifth, uphold the concept of "social co-governance", fully pool the wisdom, resources and energy of all parties in society, mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, to achieve special food safety co-governance and sharing.
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