Strictly regulate the use and management of health food additives

For a long time, health food has always been the hardest hit area for illegal addition and publicity. It is mainly manifested in three aspects: First, adding pharmaceutical ingredients to health foods, adding medicine ingredients to so-called sexual health products and weight loss and blood sugar lowering health foods. More common. Second, ordinary foods are pretending to be health food propaganda, or health foods themselves exaggerate publicity. For example, in the first quarter of 2014 alone, the State Food and Drug Administration disclosed as 5,632 illegal health food advertisements; the third was to process or pretend to be expensive with non-food substances. Medicinal materials, a variety of prohibited ingredients are added to health care products, and the phenomenon of hacking, pseudonym, set number, and serial approval number is still frequent in the health food field (August 24, Minsheng.com).

Health foods have always been a prone area for illegal additions, and mainly chemical additives. Undoubtedly, due to the large number of illegal additions of chemicals, these health foods can not only make up the body, but may kill. For example, the *** that appears in weight-loss products can excite the central nervous system and increase the speed of the body's metabolism, thereby promoting weight loss. However, it is one of the raw materials for manufacturing ***, which is a national controlled drug. Long-term use will affect heart rate and even harm life.

Therefore, the illegal addition of health food violations must be strictly controlled, and the health food should be thoroughly rectified once, so that the illegal addition of health foods is invisible.

On the one hand, we must establish the awareness that “the enterprise is the first responsible person”, urge enterprises to organize production in strict accordance with the approved production process and formula, use food additives in accordance with the standards, and strengthen product quality management, conduct health food safety hazard analysis and take Corresponding precautions ensure product quality and safety. At the same time, the responsibility system is strictly implemented, and the responsible persons of key positions are clearly defined, and the responsibility books are signed at different levels.

On the other hand, intensify the investigation and punishment of illegal food additive companies, and focus on strengthening the supervision and sampling of health foods that are prone to illegal additions, such as weight loss, anti-fatigue, blood lipid regulation, blood sugar regulation, and blood pressure regulation. Strengthen the inspection of the behavior of entrusted production of health foods, and focus on checking whether the raw materials, production processes, labeling labels and specifications used by the production enterprises are consistent with the approved contents. Severely crack down on the illegal addition of non-declared ingredients and abuse of food additives to health foods, inventory purchase channels of raw materials and food additives, purchase inspections, inspection records and claims. We will always maintain a high-pressure situation and impose penalties on the illegal addition of various types of health foods in accordance with the upper limit prescribed by the statutory scope. Anyone who intentionally illegally adds non-edible substances shall revoke the relevant licenses, confiscate their illegal proceeds and related articles used for illegal operation according to law, and immediately transfer the illegal crimes to the public security organs.

The regulatory authorities should make full use of existing resources, improve the inspection and testing methods for adding chemical drugs in health foods, strengthen the construction of health food quality testing institutions, support a number of health food quality inspection centers, and accelerate the construction of quality inspection center teams. Establish a health food safety information network, select several typical health foods to carry out safety status investigation, establish a health food safety information monitoring system and information notification network, and strengthen the sense of responsibility and integrity of health food production operators.

In addition, the use and management of food additives in health food production enterprises should be strictly regulated. We will focus on strengthening the supervision of the storage and use of health food additives and auxiliary materials. At the same time, we will establish a declaration and filing system for the production and use of additives for health foods. All health food production enterprises must establish a filing system for the use of additives. Establish and improve food safety credit files for health food production and management enterprises, further strengthen the sense of responsibility of health food production operators and promote the healthy development of the health food industry.