Problems And Countermeasures In The Supervision Of Food Supplement In China

In recent years,with the proposal and promotion of the “Healthy China” strategy,the concept of "healthy" has gained popularity.There has been the tradition of “food and medicine homology” and “food supplement” since ancient times in China.Now,more and more people are setting their sight on food supplement.In addition,China has population of 1.4 billion,thus leads to a huge group of senior citizens in our country.Beacause they physical functions are declining with cardiovascular diseases,they hope to take food supplement to achieve longevity and improve their life quality.Therefore,food supplement market is large,and there is still much room in the future.However,food supplement in China has some problems such as orderlessness,unsafety,illegal addition,illegal publicity,which seriously damage the health of consumers and even endanger consumers’ s life.By "Quanjian incident" occurred at the end of 2018,it made people astonished.At present,the change of the conventional supervision mode of the food supplement from the previous “registration and approval” style to combination of “approval and filing”,the supervision of the food supplement has been strengthened to a certain extent.However,there are still certain problems in current mode.On the one hand,the regulatory mode of "registration approval" often needs a long time for approval,which increases the time and economic costs of the food supplement companies.On the other hand,because of the overly investment of regulatory power in the registration and approval,the regulatory power for those problems is often limited.Compared with developed countries,taking the United States as an example,food supplement in the US are called "dietary supplement" and it usually regarded as "food".In US,they only need to file to the FDA(Food and Drug Administration).Further more,FDA has a series of measures,such as recall and warning for the supervision of dietary supplements.Therefore,the supervision of dietary supplements has become systematic.In contrast,the regulatory enforcement power on the food supplement pay more attention to pre-market approval in China.Due to the lack of a series of measures in the supervision of health food market in China,the supervision effect is still weak.This article analyzes the problems food supplement market in China,clarifies the differences between food supplemtn and medicines,analyzes the laws and regulations on health food market,compares the differences between China and the US in the supervision,and proposes corresponding countermeasures.This article consists of three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction part mainly comprises of the introduction of the background and significance of this article,and the problems in the supervision in China,and the introduction of the supervision of dietary supplement in the US.The body consists of five chapters.The first chapter mainly clarifies the concepts and differences of the food supplement,medicines and health products.The second chapter is about the current status of the legal supervision,introducing the current legal supervision system.The third chapter analyzes the problems existing in the supervision of the food supplement.Chapter 4 introduces and evaluates the regulatory system on dietary supplement market in the U.S,and provides the enlightenment and lessons from it.Chapter 5 is about provide some solutions in dealing with food supplement in China.The conclusion part is to summarize the full article,that is,it is necessary to change the supervision mode of the food supplemenet in China.