RE: Now 24 health functions25 Apr 2023 14:25
Health food registration:
Since the repeal of Technical Standards for Testing & Assessment of Health Food (2003 Edition) in 2018, most of the registrations of new health food products in China have been suspended due to a lack of testing basis for functional evaluation.
However, according to ??????[2012] No. 107 (National Food and Drug Administration [2012] No. 107), nine health function evaluation methods are currently valid, these are:
antioxidant;
assisting the protection from gastric mucosal injury;
assisting blood sugar reduction;
alleviating visual fatigue;
improving iron-deficiency anemia;
assisting blood lipids reduction;
alleviating lead excretion;
reducing body weight; and
clearing and nourishing the throat.
Moreover, several new regulations on evaluation methods of health food functions were issued for public comments on November 24, 2020, and January 13, 2022. We believe that the new evaluation methods can be implemented in the very near future, and products with the 24 permitted health functions can be registered smoothly.