The complaint and reporting hotline of the Food and Drug Administration: 12331.
The functions of the Food and Drug Administration are simply divided into three parts:
1. In charge of all-round supervision of drugs and medical devices, including manufacturers, distribution companies, and user units (hospitals);
2. Comprehensive supervision of food. As the government's starting point, it plays a coordination role among health, industrial and commercial quality supervision, and has no actual law enforcement power;
3. Approval of health foods.
Due to the reform of national institutions, there are differences in different regions. To put it simply:
1. The Beijing Bureau and Guangdong Bureau are also in charge of health products and cosmetics;
2. The Shanghai Bureau is currently the most powerful among DAs in the country. In addition to the drug and medical device supervisors of various local drug administrations, and the health products and cosmetics supervisors of the Beijing and Guangdong Bureau, food also has specific law enforcement powers;
4, Shaanxi health products, Zhejiang’s health food products are under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration;
5. The functions of the provincial Food and Drug Administration not mentioned are consistent with those of the National Food and Drug Administration.
Things that need to be mentioned in particular:
1. Advertisements for pharmaceuticals, health products and medical devices are not under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, but under the jurisdiction of the Industry and Commerce Administration. The Food and Drug Administration only has the power to approve advertising, but if it is indiscriminate Propaganda, false propaganda, only industry and commerce has the right to punish;
2. Drug prices are under the control of the price department;
3. Some health products are under health management.