Policies guide the healthy development ofhealth food industry

Zhang Yongjian, director of the Food andDrug Industry Development and Supervision Research Center of the Chinese Academyof Social Sciences, said that in recent years, health food regulators haveactively explored deepening the reform of "management and service",introduced a series of policies and regulations, and promoted the health foodindustry from "regulation in development" to "development inregulation" by means of management innovation, system innovation andmethod innovation. Through management innovation, system innovation, methodinnovation and other means, the health food industry has been transformed from"standardization in development" to "development instandardization" to fully protect the legitimate rights and interests ofconsumers. In the face of new situation, new problems and new challenges, it isnecessary to re-examine and study and further deepen the regulatory reform ofhealth food industry.

In 2021, the State Administration of MarketSupervision revised the Regulations on Available Excipients and Their Use forHealth Food Products for Record (2021 Edition) and the Dosage Forms andTechnical Requirements for Health Food Products for Record (2021 Edition) toinclude powder and gel confectionery into health food dosage forms for record,which enriched the form of the health food filing system. In the same year, the"Nutrient Supplements for Health Food Raw Materials Catalogue (2020Edition)" and "Nutrient Supplements for Health Care Functions Allowedto be Claimed in Health Food Catalogue (2020 Edition)" were implemented,further improving the health food filing system. At the same time,"Coenzyme Q10 and other five health food raw material catalog" alsobegan to implement, coenzyme Q10, broken wall ganoderma lucidum spore powderand other five kinds of health food can be filed, changing the situation thatonly vitamins and minerals are allowed to be filed, marking a new stage ofdevelopment of the health food filing system.

In January this year, the StateAdministration of Market Supervision issued the "Announcement on therelease of the health care function catalog of non-nutrient supplements allowedto be claimed by health food (2022 version) and supporting documents (draft forcomments)", which cancels the 3 health care functions of promotinglactation, improving growth and development, and improving skin oiling that arenot in line with the existing health care function positioning, and has nolonger accepted the approval of tumor suppression, auxiliary tumor suppression,anti-mutation, and In March, the State Administration of Market Supervisionissued the Notice on Strengthening the Management of Health Food Labels (Draftfor Comments), which supplemented the contents not covered in the Regulationson Health Food Labels, which came into effect in July 1996. , any unit orindividual may, on the basis of relevant research, individually or jointly proposenew functions of health food to the food review agency of the StateAdministration of Market Supervision.

"The health food industry should builda new development pattern in which all stakeholders move towards eachother." Zhang Yongjian said that the deepening reform of the health foodindustry can be carried out through "perfecting the top-level design -formulating long, medium and short-term planning - coordinating theimplementation step by step - and pushing forward step by step". -The pathof "promoting step by step" can be implemented.

Wang Hesong said that with the increasingimprovement of laws and regulations, the supervision of the health foodindustry has become more and more standardized, and the concentration of theindustry has been further enhanced. Consumers have a more comprehensiveunderstanding of health food, the consumer concept is more mature, moreinclined to choose the function of health food specialization, and thediversified needs of health food has also driven the development of products inthe direction of diversification.