What are food, food and medicine?
Brand-name food products: foods containing general nutrients and foods containing new resources shall be examined and approved by other health departments, and the food approval number is "Shi Gui Jianzi". The approval number (Wei Shi Jian Zi (96) No.68) of foods containing new resources such as Cordyceps active nutrient solution is approved by the Ministry of Health. Food brand products can't publicize the efficacy, but they can introduce the efficacy of the main ingredients contained in the products. Insect surface active nutrient solution can introduce the function, use and basic efficacy of new resource food Cordyceps sinensis.
The Measures for the Administration of Health Foods formulated by the state for the products of "Shijianzi" stipulates that foods with specific health care functions should be approved by the Ministry of Health, and the approval number is "Weishijian". The first batch of 59 kinds of health foods have been announced. Food and health care products can publicize the health care functions approved by the Ministry of Health.
"Yaojianzi" products: Drugs with specific health care and nutrition functions are called "health care drugs". Strict examination and approval by the administrative department of health. Its approval number is "Gui Wei Jian Yao Zi". Products classified by drugs can publicize irrelevant functions in the instructions approved by the local health administrative department.
The revocation of the word "Jian" can separate medicine from food, which can not only change the situation that the word "Jian" is not worthy of the name in the past, but also make those health care products with no therapeutic function return to the ranks of food. Undoubtedly, this is a good thing for the healthy and disorderly development of the health care industry. According to expert analysis, it is difficult to upgrade products to drugs. The examination and approval of new drugs requires long-term clinical trials, and the examination and approval procedures of health care products and drugs are far from each other. It is necessary not only to supplement a lot of data, but also to meet good manufacturing specifications. In contrast, "Jian Yao" is easier to fade out of the pharmaceutical industry and become a health care product.
Since 2000, the relevant state departments have carried out a three-year rectification of health care products. The main purpose of canceling the word "Jian Yao" is to standardize the market, and to solve the problems existing in some domestic health care drugs, such as exaggerating curative effect propaganda, adding bad ingredients, overemphasizing therapeutic function and inducing consumers. Draw a clear line between drugs and food and conduct effective supervision.
After the cancellation of the document number "Jian Yao Zi", all kinds of health care products will be reported to the State Food and Drug Administration according to different categories of drugs and foods, and all sectors of society can inquire about relevant information through the website of the administration.
At present, the products allowed to be sold in the market include drugs with the words "drug quasi" and foods with the words "food health care", while drugs with the words "drug health care" have been banned from being sold. The original health care products with "Jian Yao" logo on the market have been transformed into "medicine" and "food".