China Will Rectify The Health Food Market To Ensure Public Food Safety

Business community on May 11th hearing the State Food and Drug Administration recently issued "2010 health food safety rectification work plan", calling through the consolidation of health food safety, crack down on illegal health food, health food law to curb chaos in an effective, regulate health food market order, safeguarding people's health and safety.

 It is reported that the rectification work focuses on: according to the approved period of registration but did not indicate a full clean-up of health food replacement; carry out health food labels, instructions and special inspection of the contents of drugs in health food special inspection of law; regulation of health foods exaggerated advocacy function and use of public lectures, etc. disguised sales of fake and shoddy health food; investigate acts of selling counterfeit and inferior health food; investigate claims of ordinary food-specific health care function's behavior.

 The program urges all health food regulatory authorities to further improve food safety rectification work on health importance and urgency of understanding the health food safety rectification work on an important position, conscientiously perform their statutory duties, earnestly rectification health food safety organization and implementation and implementation. Regulatory departments at all levels of health food with local conditions, develop practical implementation plans, clear objectives, tasks and responsibilities, step by step implementation of consolidation tasks, timely inspection and evaluation organization, to ensure the rectification work closely and firmly grasp fine, achieve results, efforts to Construction of scientific supervision and effective monitoring of long-term mechanism.

 Regulatory departments at all levels of health food products to increase food safety rectification propaganda, and actively respond to hot issues of social concern. To give full play to the role of community supervision, the mobilization of social forces to actively participate in the restructuring efforts, not only the exposure time illegal enterprise, illegal products, and timely information to the progress and effectiveness of the rectification work.

 In addition, all levels of health food regulatory departments should strengthen inter-regional, inter-sectoral coordination and cooperation, monitoring efforts. Involving other regions and sectors violation cases, to promptly inform the relevant regions and departments of the situation, make an investigation request; received briefings on the requirements and an investigation should be handled in a timely manner as required response. The provincial health food regulatory authorities to strengthen food security and consolidation of the health organization and coordination and inspection work, timely detection and rectification of problems in processing, ensure that the rectification work carried out, to achieve tangible results.