What is special medical food?

Food for special medical use (that is, formula food for special medical use) is specially processed and prepared to meet the nutritional or dietary needs of people with food restrictions, digestive and absorption disorders, metabolic disorders or specific disease states (such products must be used under the guidance of doctors or clinical nutritionists).

Special medical food provides targeted nutritional support for patients and is an effective way to carry out clinical nutritional support. The formula of special medical food should be based on the research results of medicine and/or nutrition, and its safety and clinical application (effect) need to be scientifically confirmed. The production conditions of special medical food should also meet the relevant national requirements.

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Details of special medical food

It is understood that the applicable objects of special medical foods include: people with special nutritional needs under normal physiological conditions, such as pregnant women and the elderly; People with special nutritional needs under pathological conditions, such as patients with various diseases such as diabetes, kidney disease and tumor, and injured people such as surgery. The specific classification of special medical foods is as follows:

1, full nutrition formula food

Can be used as a single source of nutrition to meet the nutritional needs of the target population.

2, specific total nutrition formula food

Can be used as a single source of nutrition to meet the nutritional needs of the target population under specific diseases or medical conditions.

3. Non-total nutrition formula food

Formula food for special medical use that can meet some nutritional needs of the target population is not suitable as a single nutritional source.

Baidu encyclopedia-Harbin institute of special medical food