Some e-commerce is still selling the General Administration of Market Supervision sent a letter to check "not old medicine"

Pharmaceutical network January 21st, the General Administration of Market Supervision sent a letter to check the "not old drugs" part of the e-commerce is still selling domestic NMN nearly a year, the so-called "not old drugs" to become the new darling of the health care products market, even if the price of thousands of yuan a bottle, but also let many consumers flock to, and even pan Shiyi and other celebrities for its "endorsement."
Beijing Youth Daily reporter january 19 learned that, a few days ago, the General Administration of Market Supervision, the Department of Food Operations issued a letter that the current NMN ("not old medicine" the main ingredients) in China has not been approved, that is, NMN in China, can not be used as food production and management.
the letter requires all localities to investigate and investigate related illegal acts.
The General Administration of Market Supervision has issued a letter on the detection of illegal operation of "non-old drugs", which clearly states that niacin mono nucleic acid (NMN) cannot be produced and operated as a food in China, and requires a comprehensive inspection of the relevant operators.
The letter said that a few days ago, the media reflected that operators illegal operation of "not old drugs" situation, "not old drugs" the main components of niacin mono nucleic acid (NMN) or as raw materials for production, individual tablet candy and other common forms of existence, mainly to promote "anti-aging, repair DNA, prevent Alzheimer's disease" and other effects.
, NMN in China has not obtained drugs, health food, food additives and new food raw materials licensing, that is, in China, NMN can not be used as food production and management.
this end, the Division proposed to the relevant food operators to conduct a comprehensive inspection, found that there are illegal acts, timely verification and investigation in accordance with the law, the relevant inspection situation was reported to the Division on February 1.
, along with the concept of "anti-aging", NMN products quickly swept the domestic market.
"Double Eleven" in 2020, JD.com data show that NMN product turnover increased by 1500% year-on-year, with sales peaking again.
, a reporter from The North Qing Daily, checked JD.com and Tmall platforms on January 19th and found that NMN products were branded and sold well.
some vitamin products are designed with "non-NMN" products to increase their exposure.
JD.com platform as an example, there are more than 5600 kinds of goods under the NMN keyword.
product has more than 5,200 reviews alone.
according to the North Qing newspaper reporter incomplete statistics, Tmall about NMN products to turn 12 pages to complete, Tmall International is currently selling nearly a hundred NMN brands.
these NMN products are mostly expensive, a bottle of imported 60-packed products, the price is more than 1200 yuan to 3000 yuan.
There are NMN products in the e-commerce platform suspected of illegal sales of Beqing newspaper reporter noted that the General Administration of Market Supervision letter out, many e-commerce brands are "clearing the relationship", have proved themselves to be "overseas" flagship stores, or explicitly referred to as "cross-border purchase" products.
China has never approved NMN as a pharmaceutical, health food, food additives and new food raw materials license.
NMN's ability to sell on e-commerce platforms is largely due to its inclusion on the cross-border "positive list" of purchases as a derivative of the vitamin B family.
2016, the Announcement on the Publication of a List of Retail Imports of Cross-Border E-Commerce, co-produced by eleven ministries and commonly known as the "Positive List", was officially released, which includes goods such as "unmixed vitamins and derivatives".
can be purchased across borders through corporate-to-consumer (B2C) sales.
However, although such goods included in the "positive list" can be imported, but in the country can not be used as food production and management, but the North Qing Newspaper reporter found that many NMN goods quietly put themselves into the need for national approval to use the "health food (food and health word)."
the product screening items as "health food (food health word), " there are still more than 1500 kinds of NMN merchandise sold in JD.com platform.
to remove a lot of "hot", there are some "unknown origin" of goods.
On the JD.com platform, a product called "nmn15000 Gene Amukin Capsule Anti-NAD plus Supplement Aging Niacinamide Single Nucleotide Green Health Park 1 bottle (60 capsules)", the product claims to be "health care grade", while also claiming to be "blue hat logo: health food (food and health word)" in the specification parameters table.
the store it operates is Longyan City E-Commerce Co., Ltd., the business license clearly states that the scope of food it operates does not include imported and exported goods.
according to a letter from the General Administration of Market Supervision, China has not approved any domestic NMN drugs and health care products.
, NMN cannot be produced and operated as a food.
on Taobao platform, Beqing reporter also found that there are claims that domestic NMN products are on sale.
Taobao last name is "domestic nmn9600 niacinamide single nucleotide Japanese nad plus supplement anti-gene repair aging" products, the production landmark is called "China Jiangsu."
the product claims to be "easy to fall asleep" after taking it, "muscle swelling and weakness disappear", "fishtail patterns become shallow" and so on.
and another product called "NMN9000 domestic export of U.S. coenzyme β-nicolamide single nucleotide anti-aging gene repair 9600", the origin of Chinese mainland, directly declared that "activate the longevity gene" "oral face is not old pills."
there is a huge controversy in the academic community about NMN, only a handful of countries have approved it as a health product, and although businesses claim that NMN has a significant anti-aging effect, the fact is that Dr. David Sinclair, who invented the drug, has only completed NMN's mouse trials and has not conducted human-to-human clinical trials.
according to Our country's regulations, NMN in order to be approved as a health care products in China, must go through clinical trials, and through scientific demonstration, to prove that it has the declared health effect.
Beiqing newspaper reporter learned that the fruit shell in August 2020 issued a message that the role of NMN in the human body is not clear.
the paper says NMN's clinical findings in humans are few and far between, with only one paper published in the February 2020 issue of the Journal of Endocrinology reporting on a first-phase clinical study by Japanese scientists that began in 2016.
concluded that "the data show that 500 mg NMN is safe at one time or so".
NMN did not have a significant effect on heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen, body temperature, etc., nor did it significantly change vision and sleep, the paper said.
the most critical data for "non-old drugs" -- NAD-plus levels in tissues and plasma -- the study said there was no measurement.
fact, the only country that currently gives NMN "legal status" is Japan, which added NMN to its list of food ingredients on March 31, 2020.
Beiqing newspaper reporter learned that in Europe, NMN is not approved as a food or health products raw materials, that is, in Europe for the production and sale of related products will be considered illegal;
most laxly regulated place in the U.S., where NMN is used as a nutritional supplement under FDA regulations.
, most NMN products are produced in the United States and Japan.
, however, under FDA regulations, nutritional supplements are not allowed to claim treatment or prevention effects on the disease.
fda has repeatedly issued warning letters to companies about the NMN brand's exaggerated publicity.