Announcement on Issuing the Implementation Plan of Safe Food Reorganization Work in 2010

National Food and Drug Administration Supervisor [2010] No. 186

Food and Drug Administration (Drug Supervision Bureau) and Health Department (Bureau) of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government:

In order to conscientiously implement the "Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing Work Arrangements for Food Safety in 2010" (Guobanfa [2010] No. 17), the State Food and Drug Administration has formulated the "2010." Annual health food safety rectification work implementation plan. It is printed and distributed to you now. Please combine it with reality and implement it conscientiously.

State Food and Drug Administration May 5, 2010

annex:
2010 health food safety rectification work implementation plan

To thoroughly implement the "Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Deepening the Work Arrangement for Food Safety Rehabilitation in 2010" (Guobanfa [2010] No. 17) and the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Division of Main Tasks for Food Safety Reorganization in 2010" ( In the spirit of the National Office Letter [2010] No. 43), the full implementation of food safety rectification tasks, further strengthen the supervision of health foods, ensure the safety of the public diet, and formulate this implementation plan.

First, rectify the work goal

Through the rectification of health food safety, we will crack down on violations of health foods in accordance with the law, effectively curb irregularities in health foods, standardize the market order of health foods, and effectively safeguard the health and safety of the people.

Second, focus on rectifying work

According to the law, health foods that have been approved for registration but have not been marked with an effective period are subject to comprehensive clean-up and renewal; special labels for health foods, special inspections of the contents of manuals, and special inspections for illegally added drugs for health foods; special inspections of health foods for exaggeration and public lectures, etc. The act of counterfeiting health foods; investigating and prosecuting the production and sale of counterfeit and poor health food products; and investigating and prosecuting common foods for the declaration of specific health care functions.

Third, rectification measures

The provincial-level supervision departments for health foods should focus on organizing special food safety rectification work, take effective measures, increase supervision and inspection, investigate major cases according to law, and improve the market order of health foods.

(1) Completely clean up and replace the health foods that have been approved for registration but have not been marked with expiration date according to law

Health food regulatory agencies throughout the country must make preparations for the cleanup and renewal of health foods and find out the basic situation of health food approval certificates that have not been marked in the region for validity. After the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Health Foods" are issued, they shall be in accordance with the State Food and Drug Administration. The unified deployment of the Bureau actively and steadily promoted the renewal of certification.

(II) Conducting special inspections on the labeling of health foods, contents of manuals, and special inspections of illegally added drugs for health foods

Health food regulatory agencies throughout the country must strictly implement the provisions of the "Food Safety Law" and its implementation regulations, seriously carry out health food labeling, manual content inspections, and regulate the labeling of health food labels and manuals. Starting from the source, the company organizes the supervision and inspection of health food production enterprises and import agents, and focuses on checking and handling of health food labeling, illegal labeling of disease prevention, and treatment functions that are inconsistent with the approved content.

The provincial-level health food regulatory agencies shall organize and deploy uniform inspections of illegally added health food products in the region, focus on resolving outstanding problems in the health food products in the region, and respond to the strong social and illegal publicity efforts involving more varieties. Focus on testing the drug ingredients associated with the claimed health food function. We must pay close attention to investigating and handling major cases and severely crack down on the behavior of health food producing enterprises in illegally adding pharmaceutical ingredients to health foods.

(III) Remedying the behavior of selling counterfeit and shoddy health food products by disguising health foods and using public lectures

Health food regulatory agencies throughout the country must strengthen the monitoring of illegal advertisements for health foods, and focus on rectifying the prevention and treatment functions of health food advertisements, and exaggerating publicity activities such as certification of efficacy in the name of experts or patients. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of health food business enterprises, and timely discover and handle the illegal activities of health foods in the publicity materials that claim to prevent and treat diseases.

Health food regulatory departments throughout the country should make full use of the clues provided by complaints and reports, and jointly investigate and deal with the sale of counterfeit and inferior health food through disguised forms such as public welfare lectures, health clinics, academic exchanges, and exhibition sales.

(4) Seriously investigating the behavior of manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior health foods

Health food regulatory agencies throughout the country must strictly enforce laws and regulations. Laws and regulations that are found in rectification and routine supervision must be governed by laws such as the Food Safety Law, the Advertising Law, and the State Council's Special Provisions on Strengthening Food Safety Supervision and Administration. The provisions of the regulations deal strictly with:

1. If the health foods produced in the labels or instructions are illegally related to the prevention or treatment functions of diseases, or are not marked according to the contents of the approval, and illegally add medicinal ingredients to health foods, administrative compulsory measures and administrative punishment shall be imposed according to law; if the circumstances are serious, All production shall be ordered to suspend production until the relevant permit is revoked.

2. Exaggerating the publicity function of health food advertisements shall expose the illegal products and their production and operation enterprises and transfer them to law enforcement agencies for investigation.

3. Disguised sales of counterfeit and inferior health foods in the form of counterfeit and inferior health foods as well as the use of public welfare lectures shall be dealt with according to law.

4. Regarding the behavior of common foods illegally claiming to have health food functions, the health food supervision departments throughout the country must conscientiously perform their duties and actively cooperate with the relevant departments in accordance with the principle of “who approves and who is responsible” in a timely manner.

5. Any suspected crime committed during the rectification of health foods shall be transferred to the public security department.

Fourth, rectification work requirements

(I) Strengthen organization and leadership. Health food regulatory agencies throughout the country should further raise awareness of the importance and urgency of the safety food safety rectification work, place the work of safety food safety rectification in an important position, and fully implement “the local government’s overall responsibility, the regulatory agencies’ respective responsibilities, and the It is the requirement of the first responsible person. Under the unified leadership of local party committees and governments, they earnestly performed their statutory duties and effectively carried out organizational implementation and implementation of health food safety rectification. Health food regulatory authorities at all levels shall formulate practical and feasible implementation plans in light of local conditions, clarify goals and tasks and work responsibilities, implement the task of rectification step by step, organize inspections and assessments in a timely manner, and ensure that the rectification work is carried out intensively, and results are achieved. To establish a long-term mechanism for scientific supervision and effective supervision.

(b) Strengthen the news propaganda. The supervisory departments of health foods at all levels should increase efforts to rectify publicity work on food safety and actively respond to hot issues of concern to the society. To give full play to the role of social supervision and mobilize social forces to actively participate in rectification work, not only timely disclosure of illegal enterprises and illegal products, but also timely promotion of the progress and effectiveness of the rectification work.

(c) Strengthen collaboration and inspection and evaluation. Health food supervisory departments at all levels must strengthen coordination and cooperation among regions and departments, and form a regulatory force. In case of illegal cases involving other regions and departments, relevant areas and departments shall be informed in a timely manner of the relevant circumstances, and the requirements for ancillary investigations shall be submitted; if the requirements for notification of the situation and co-examination are received, they shall be promptly handled and responded to as required. The provincial supervisory departments for health foods must strengthen the organization, coordination, and inspection of health food safety rectification work, timely find and handle the problems in the rectification work, ensure that the rectification work is implemented and the actual results are achieved. The State Food and Drug Administration will, in due course, carry out inspections and assessments on the safety rectification work of health foods throughout the country.

The health food supervisory departments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government are required to submit regular reports on the "Safety Food Safety and Reorganization Work Statistics" (Annex), and will report on the state of health food safety rectification work before December 10, 2010. Supervision Authority.