The State Council issued a document to redefine the health care industry

Source: Yigu on October 19, 2016, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council promulgated the regulations on the implementation of the food safety law of the people's Republic of China (Draft for review) (hereinafter referred to as the regulations), and now it is open to the whole society for comments The public can log in to the legal information network of the Chinese government (website) before November 19, 2016 Http://www.chinalaw.gov.cn), and put forward opinions on the draft for review The "Regulations" once again defined the definition of health food Health food refers to the food that claims to have health care function or to supplement vitamins, minerals and other nutrients for the purpose of regulating human body function, not for the purpose of treating diseases, containing specific functional components, suitable for specific people to eat, and has a specified amount of food A food selling enterprise shall set up a special counter or area for selling health food, and mark the "special counter or area for selling health food" in the prominent position of the special counter or area Health food shall not be mixed with drugs or ordinary food for sale, and the words "this product cannot replace drugs" shall also be marked in a prominent position in the counter or special area The functions of health food shall meet the requirements of the health function catalog, and shall be marked in strict accordance with the contents of registration or filing, and shall not be added, added or combined at will The health food can only be marked with the health function approved by the registration certificate, and other foods other than the health food shall not express or imply the efficacy in any form or on any carrier At the same time, the Regulations stipulates that local food safety standards shall not be formulated for health food, formula food for special medical purposes, infant formula food, food additives, food related products, new food raw materials and food inspection methods and procedures related to food safety The production enterprises of health food, formula food for special medical purposes and formula food for infants and young children shall organize production in accordance with the registered or filed product formula, production process and other technical requirements, and the standards of special food enterprises shall meet the registered or filed product technical requirements If the production process of health food products has pre-treatment processes such as raw material extraction and purification, the production enterprise must have the pre-treatment capacity of raw materials suitable for the variety and scale of production The relevant contents of labels and instructions of health food, formula food for special medical purposes, formula food for infants and young children shall be consistent with the contents of registration or filing, and the registration number or filing number shall be marked Enterprises applying for health food registration shall organize and carry out relevant research work, complete sample production within the production enterprises that meet the good production standards of health food, and submit test reports issued by legally qualified inspection institutions In addition, according to the progress of scientific research and the registration of health food, the regulation also requires the dynamic management of the catalogue of health food raw materials and the catalogue of health functions that are allowed to be claimed by health food If the enterprise standards of health food, formula food for special medical purposes and infant formula milk powder have been incorporated into the technical requirements of product formula and production process, the enterprise standards may not be put on record.