Health products can not be eaten as medicine

1. According to the survey of households in Beijing and Tianjin, about 75% of respondents aged over 60 often take health products. Most of these health products are gifts for their children. Women are another important group of health food consumption. The survey found that about 23% of urban women in the year purchased health products. The per capita consumption amounted to nearly 1,000 yuan, mainly concentrated in detoxification and beauty products, and they showed younger age characteristics. . Children's health products are based on various types of nutrient solutions that are known to enhance intelligence and promote physical development.

Lele is a sixth-grade primary school student in Tianjin, and his parents began to take him with "Yao-enriched DHA, enhanced memory, and improved memory function." Three months later, Lele had eaten a few thousand dollars. In health care products, learning does not improve, but there are symptoms of muscle unconsciously twitching.

Today, it has become common for urban children to take health products. There are as many as 5 or more health products for children at the same time. A survey report by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology on the behavior of residents using drugs shows that urban and rural residents have misunderstandings about health products, and some people blindly use health care products, mostly elderly people, women and children.

According to the survey, 21% of the respondents believe that health products are medicines that can cure diseases and even use health products and drugs; 23% believe that health products have no toxic or side effects and can be taken long-term. 58% of the respondents believe that vitamins are beneficial and harmless, and that they can be supplemented as much as they can.

The abuse of health products is extremely harmful. The survey found that some elderly people were seriously impaired in their bodily functions due to excessive use of health supplements, which not only failed to achieve longevity, but also accelerated aging. Women blindly take health care products such as slimming, cosmetology, and detoxification, which have greatly increased the risk of cancer because of many hormones. Excessive use of health supplements by children can lead to premature child sexual development, mental retardation and obesity.

An 8-year-old girl in Hebei Province was shorter than her peers. Her parents gave the children a large number of health supplements declared to have increased functions in various advertisements. As a result, after six months of use, the girl’s development progressed in advance and her secondary sexual characteristics became apparent.

2. Many health care product management companies have tricked consumers into buying and using health care products through virtual exaggeration, free medical examinations, free trials, health consultations, and bonus products. The regulatory authorities did not regularly review the qualifications of health care products companies and it was difficult to guarantee the quality of production.

Health care products have the common characteristics of common foods, which can regulate the function of the human body and are suitable for consumption by certain people but are not intended to treat diseases. However, many health products often claim to achieve certain functions, but they do not describe the ingredients and the applicable population. Residents also value the efficacy when buying health products.

The survey found that in order to pursue benefits, many health care product management companies have tricked consumers into buying and using health products through virtual exaggeration, free medical examinations, free trials, health consultations, and bonus products. Some health product production and operation companies use newspapers, television and other media to do intimidation through medical experts and celebrities; some health product product manuals and labels are not printed in accordance with the approved contents, and they increase health care functions, expand the applicable population, and even deliberately confuse The boundaries of drugs mislead consumers; some products use food approval numbers, production license numbers, and disinfection and sterilization product approval numbers to counterfeit the name of health food products and claim health care violations. At the same time, some local media have played an important role in pursuing economic interests and circulating all-weather health care product advertisements.

Taking weight loss health food as an example, counterfeiting and dosing are common means for such health foods. Ms. Sun of Guangdong Province once took a certain brand of weight loss health care products, resulting in more than diarrhea and unable to work normally. After reading the news, I learned that this product was illegally added. Li Ping, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Health Association and chairman of the Slimming Branch, believes that the emergence of these problems in the weight-loss health foods market is related to the people’s lack of understanding of the causes of obesity, and also related to the irregularities in the market. Especially on the Internet platform, China's regulatory system is very weak.

Recently, the State Food and Drug Administration formed 20 inspection teams and sent them to 18 regions in 15 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). They conducted flight inspections on 11 health food production and operation companies and conducted special inspections on 228 batches of health food products. , Unannounced visits to three health food wholesale markets. The flight inspection found that one company was suspected of forging official seals for the production and operation of counterfeit health food products. Six companies had illegal production and management activities. One company had eight different brands of labels and labels on the same product, and the company marked Product specifications and approvals are inconsistent.

The inspection group specially selected 4 batches of illegal drug-adding positive samples, such as those sampled at Rentai Pharmacy, Aomen Road, Huichuan District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, and labeled Zuo-Xiang Slimming Coffee produced by Zhejiang Lingwei Health Industry Co., Ltd. G20050818, production lot number 20130302), phenolphthalein detected. There are 13 batches of product identification information and approval content does not match.

The unannounced visits to the three wholesale markets by the inspection team found that health food packaging label instructions were confusing and that health food illegal propaganda issues were prominent, and that health food counterfeit approval numbers and the number one multi-use phenomenon were more common. For example, in the unannounced visits, products such as Shenhua Shi Jian Zi (1998) No. 0227 and the approved approval document No. 0227 for the country's gourmet food were found to be inconsistent with the approved contents of the health food. Some operators know that their products are counterfeit and inferior health foods, but they are driven by profits. Legal products are clearly placed and illegal products are placed in secret. Most of the health foods were purchased at the product ordering meeting, and no information on product traceability was available on the spot. The health food certification and ticketing regulations were not implemented, and the source of the product could not be verified.

Some operators use product brochures, posters, and other forms to exaggerate product health care functions, express or suggest functional effects in ordinary food packaging, and promote ordinary foods as health foods that can cure a variety of diseases and have multiple functions. Mislead consumers.

The chaos in the health care industry is closely related to the lack of supervision in the industry. The investigation report of the China Branch concluded that China's supervision of the health product market lacks a sustainable and pragmatic mechanism. The health product inspection system is not strict. Once the company obtains production qualification, it can hold it for a long period of time, and generally it will not face the risk of being revoked. The regulatory authorities did not regularly review the qualifications of health care products companies, and it was difficult to guarantee the quality of production, resulting in small and poor quality small and medium-sized enterprises receiving good development space. However, some large companies operating in a formal manner were disadvantaged due to high costs due to high costs. .

3. Experts' suggestions: Strengthen the punishment of illegal health products advertisements, impose penalties on various types of media for publishing advertising platforms for illegal health products advertisements, as well as the responsibilities of experts and celebrities who defraud public trust and provide censorship to manufacturers.

In the United States, health products are forbidden to promote medical effects, and health care product manufacturers pay more attention to the explanations and publicity of "regular use or excessive consumption may cause problems" and "under what circumstances consult a doctor", etc., and sell health care products. The stores of the products mainly rely on consumers to read the manuals to make judgments. Once the promotion of health products by businesses involves the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases, etc., it will inevitably face the risk of punishment or even being banned according to law.

China Branch coordinated the inspection group's proposal to improve the health product market supervision system and guide urban and rural residents to scientifically take health products. Standardize the labeling of health products, such as detailed identification name, various raw material content, production date, manufacturer, packager, vendor name and address, etc. In addition, the relevant departments should also require the production enterprise to indicate “supplement "Identifications, such as dietary supplements, vitamin E supplements, herbal supplements, etc., are marked with statements advising consumers, such as "health supplements cannot replace drugs," "cannot use health supplements as main meals or eat them individually" . At the same time, it is recommended to popularize the scientific knowledge of health care products through various forms such as community health product lectures.

Experts recommend cracking down illegal business operations in accordance with the law. The power of the masses and the news media should be mobilized to actively expose unlawful acts in the marketing of health products and to strictly dispose of health care products management institutions that use unlawful means to deceive consumers. Strengthen the punishment of illegal health products advertisements. While penalizing manufacturers, the company also investigates the responsibility for providing various types of media for publishing advertising platforms for illegal health products, as well as endorsing and defrauding experts and celebrities of public trust.

A sound supervision system should be established to thoroughly clean up and rectify the health product market. Establish a long-term mechanism to change the current passive situation of "counterfeiting-investigation-reconstruction-reinvestigation" to improve the barriers to entry of the health care products industry, regularly review the qualifications of health care products companies, eliminate small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have operating strength, and establish regular health care products companies. Development creates a good environment for development. At the same time, as soon as possible to develop and improve health care products industry standards, the establishment of "supervision sampling, evaluation testing and self-inspection of the enterprise" Trinity of the inspection system and the national health product testing and adverse reaction reporting system.