Instructions for the Health Food Cleanup and Renewal Plan

On September 20, 2005, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Health Food Cleanup and Renewal Plan (Draft for Comments)". The industry’s long-awaited renewal of health food licenses is about to begin. The State Food and Drug Administration will re-register and review the original approval certificates of health food manufacturers. The previous two approval numbers, "Weishijianzi" and "Guoshijianzi" will be unified and standardized as "Guoshijianzi" . The health food industry is facing a clearer and more profound reshuffle.

For owners of health food certificates that need to be renewed, according to the provisions of the plan, the following points need to be paid special attention to.

1. The validity period for certificate renewal is three months

Enterprises must fill in the "Health Food Certificate Renewal Application Form" within 3 months from the date of issuance of the notice and submit the application materials Submit to the local provincial Food and Drug Administration.

Two to six-month market buffer period

The plan stipulates that health product companies must use new health food labels and instructions 6 months after obtaining a new health food certificate. Health foods produced before this using the original label instructions are allowed to be sold within the shelf life.

3. Health foods that have not been renewed will be completely eliminated

The State Food and Drug Administration will announce the new approval certificates and certificates that have been renewed in phases and in batches based on the progress of the renewal work. Approval number, and at the same time cancel and cancel the original corresponding health food approval certificate and approval number. After the certificate renewal work is completed, the State Food and Drug Administration will announce the cancellation and cancellation of health food approval certificates and approval numbers approved before July 1, 2005 that have not applied for certificate renewal and have not been renewed.

4. During the clean-up and renewal period, product changes and technology transfer applications are generally not accepted

Although the incident is still uncertain, a formal plan should be released soon. According to this regulation, health food companies that need to apply for changes and technology transfer must go through the relevant procedures as soon as possible, otherwise they can only complete the certificate renewal work themselves before changing or transferring.

5. The functional names of health food will tend to be unified

This plan clearly stipulates that if the functional name of health food is (auxiliary) tumor inhibition, it should be changed to (auxiliary) tumor inhibition function. For immunomodulatory function. This means that sfda has begun the work of unifying the functional names of health foods.

6. Clean up and establish key areas for certificate renewal

1. The names of health food are not standardized.

2. The format of the health food approval certificate and the content of the instructions are inconsistent with the current regulations.

3. The raw materials and auxiliary materials used in the product do not comply with relevant documents.

4. The detection method of the original functional ingredient or iconic ingredient is inconsistent with the current national detection method.

5. If the raw materials or products have food safety issues, the certificate will not be renewed.