Recently, the nutritio
nal health food industry’s rampant and turbulent incidents was the introduction of the functions of the SAMR, the establishment of internal institutions and staffing regulations, and the China Food and Drug Administration as the natio
nal bureau administered by the SAMR, which no lo
nger manages health food. Special foods such as health foods, and the management of nutritious health foods is classified into the Special Food Safety Supervision and Management Department. In this regard, some insiders have speculated that the Chinese government has to take new and more stringent measures for nutrition and health food.
Combining with a series of strict policies on nutrition and health foods issued by some regions in the previous section, and the media’s crackdown on the violations of nutrition and health foods, such speculation is not unfounded, but if you study the documents of the SAMR, you will find that the regulatory authorities The changes did not bring about policy updates, and did not affect the healthy development of nutritious health foods.
The SAMR has newly established a special food safety supervision and management department. The function is to analyze and co
ntrol the safety situation of special foods such as health food, special medical formula and infant formula, and formulate and implement the system measures for special food registration, filing and supervision, and organize and investigate relevant major illegal acts. The specifications and functions of the regulatory authorities have not changed relative to the SAMR of Food and Drug Administration.
Judging from the current regulations, there are no new policies and regulations for nutrition and health food at the national level. As for the daily supervision of local government departments and the normal supervision of the media, it has not shaken the natio
nal regulatory guidelines for nutrition and health food. And the idea.
By sorting out the “three-decide” plan of the SAMR, we can see the regulatory context for nutritious health food. The supervision and management function of nutrition and health food belongs to the special food safety supervision and management department; for the supervision and inspection of enterprises, it belongs to the law enforcement inspection bureau, the food production safety supervision and management department, the food operation supervision and management department, the food safety sampling inspection and control department; Belongs to the Advertising Supervision and Management Department. As long as enterprises understand the regulatory channels, they do not have to worry about the supervision of the new institutions.
The “three-decide” plan of the SAMR should bring confidence to the industry. The country's determination to promote the growth of the nutraceutical food industry will not change; the criteria for companies to comply with the law will not change; consumers' growing demand for nutritious health foods will not change. The megatrends of healthy China are there, and nutrition and health food enterprises that regulate healthy development will surely shine under scientific supervision.
