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    Where's the "health care products not drugs" warning?

    • Last Update: 2020-05-31
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    For a long time, the production and marketing of health food enterprises exaggerated publicity, and even deliberately put health food as a drug to sell, claiming that its phenomenon of cure ingenuity, are not uncommon and have been criticizedOn August 20, 2019, the State Administration of Market Supervision officially issued the "Health Food Label Warning Language Guide", explicitly requiring health food packaging warning language set requirements, summarized is "the font should be large, the position should be conspicuous."However, after the New Year, a field visit to the health care market by media reporters found that almost no product in the outer packaging of the prominent place marked with "health food is not a drug, can not replace the drug treatment of disease" this content of the warning languageSome health food does not even have any warning words, some will be hidden in the warning language in the multi-line product description, even if the eyes of good young people need to look for half a day to find, not to mention the health care products of the main consumer group of the elderlywhen the Guide was officially released last year, in order to fully take into account the interests of health products production and marketing enterprises, the State Administration of Market Supervision allowed products produced before January 1, 2020 to be sold until the end of the shelf lifeProducts manufactured after January 1, 2020 are required to implement the new rules of caution aryed from the GuidelinesSo now the products on the market are generally not in accordance with the provisions of the warning, we can be understood as january 1 this year before the production, but from which you can also see that some health care products manufacturers on the implementation of the new regulations is not enough positive side, because from last August, the "Guide" issued from now on has been about 4 months of time, some health care products total shelf life is less than 4 months, can be in advance in accordance with the new rules to label warning wordsgood provisions, we must be fully implemented before they can play a realistic roleFor health food must be in accordance with the "large font, obvious location" requirements to mark the problem of warning words, in order to avoid its flow in the form, reduced to empty text, but also need the relevant departments through strict market supervision, market inspection to urge enterprises to implement.
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