National Food and Drug Administration promulgates health food naming regulations and guidelines

The reporter learned from the State Food and Drug Administration on the 20th that in order to ensure that health foods are named scientifically and standardized, and to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, the State Food and Drug Administration revised and issued the “Naming Regulations for Health Food” and formulated the “Naming Guide for Health Food”. 》

According to the nomenclature and nomenclature of health foods, the words or words that are forbidden to be expressed in the names of health foods include: spurious word meanings, such as the use of chemically synthesized raw materials or the use of only certain natural product ingredients in the product, the expression “ Natural words, or names containing ancestral, imperial, secret, court, refined, etc. Exaggerate the meaning of words, such as: treasure, spirit, precision, power, special effects, full effect, powerful, odd, efficient, quick, and so on. Absolute word meaning, such as: the most, the first, comprehensive, all-round, special grade, top level, crown level, extreme, extraordinary and so on. Words that express or suggest therapeutic effects, such as prescription, compound, medicine, medical treatment, anti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, blood circulation, sputum, cough relieving, detoxification, names of various diseases, etc. The names of people, including medical celebrities, such as: Hua Wei, Bian Yi, Zhang Zhongjing, Li Shizhen, etc. Geographical names include China, China, and China. There are no words that are not related to the characteristics of the product and are not easily understood by consumers, such as nanometers, genes, and space. Vulgar or words with feudal superstition, such as sex, god, immortality, and God Dan. Words such as brain, eyes, and heart, etc., such as human tissues, organs, and cells. Over-range claims that product features, such as iron supplements, cannot be named blood or improve nutritional anemia. Other misleading words, such as the use of homonyms or similar words, are enough to cause consumer misunderstandings.

The regulations also require that the common name of health foods must not use the name of a drug that has already been approved for registration, unless the formula is a single raw material and is named after the name of the raw material. Do not use names that resemble the names and names of drugs that have already been approved for registration. Do not use specific crowd names. Named after the raw materials used in the product, the name of the standard raw materials should be used, but the name of the raw materials in the formula or the naming convention without authorization shall not be used. Nutrient supplement products should generally be named after vitamins or minerals. Formulas Products made up of more than three vitamins or more than three minerals can be named “multi-vitamins” or “multi-minerals,” and should not be named after some vitamins or minerals.