1.
Which products have to apply health food
certificates? The definition
about health food in China: this kind
of food has special service-health functions,
which is to say can be eaten by the given
people and adjust body’s function,
but it’s aim is not the cure. So
the applied health food must have three
properties:
(1) food property;
(2) function property;
(3) non-medicinal property.
Besides above foods provided with special
functions, nutrient products have also
been included into health food’s
administration as nutritional supplements,
such as the foods for supplying nutrition,
which the main materials are vitamins
and minerals. These kinds of food can
apply for health food licences as well.
2. Which
functions can be registered as health
food in China
There are 22 kinds of functions can
be accepted by Ministry of Health P. R.
Chin
1.
Adjust immunity |
2.
Adjust blood fat |
3.
Adjust blood sugar* |
4.
Anti-ageing |
5.
Improve memory* |
6.
Improve eyesight* |
7.
Accelerate excreting plumbum* |
8.
Clean and wet throat* |
9.
Adjust blood pressure* |
10.
Improve sleep |
11.
Accelerate lactation* |
12.
Anti-mutation |
13.
Anti-fatigue |
14.
resist anoxic |
15.
Anti- radiation |
16.
Slimming* |
17.
Accelerate growth* |
18.
Improve osteoporosis |
19.
Improve auxotrophic anaemia* |
20.
Protect chemical injured liver |
21.
Beauty Care (removing acne, removing
chloasma, improving skin��s
wet)* |
22.
Improve stomach & intestinal
function (improving digester*, wet
intestinal and defecation, improve
intestinal microbial colony*) |
Remark: * must do body test
3. The
material needed for registration:
(1). Form of application;
(2). Product’s recipe and basis;
(3). Processing;
(4). Quality control;
(5). Toxicology evaluating report;
(6). Health function evaluating report;
(7). Health food functional components
list;
(8). Functional components’ qualitative
and quantitative analysis method;
(9). Stability test report;
(10). Hygienic test report;
(11). Label and explanation;
(12). Domestic and overseas information;
(13). Producing country or international
organization’s relevant standard;
(14). The manufacture & free sale
certificate issued by the export country
(or area);
(15). The power of attorney which producer
authorize agency to apply health food;
(16). Some other material according to
relevant regulation or product’s
properties;
(17). Three samples (minimum package).
The application material must include
one original document and thirteen copies.
4. The
legal test institution for imported products
It must be tested in the Institute of
Food Safety Control & Inspection,
Ministry of Health, P. R. China.
5. Imported
heath food’s test periods
Stability and hygienic test will last
6 months; toxicological test’s pure
periods will last 35-50days; most functional
tests will last 35-50 days, but if do
body test the periods will last longer.
6. The
period of judgement
There will be 4 judgement meetings held
by Ministry of Health every year, at the
middle or last ten-day of March, June,
September, December separately.
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