CFDA Issued Work Program on Food and Health Food Special Casual Inspection and Monitoring - Regulatory News - Food & Food Contact Materials

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In order to strengthen the casual inspection and monitoring of key food varieties, CFDA issued a Work Program on Food and Health Food Special Casual Inspection and Monitoring (hereinafter referred to as the Work Program) on 2 April 2018. Relevant information is as follows:

1. Varieties of Sampling Food

The casual inspection food covers 3 categories, including health food, plant protein beverage and convenience food.

1.1 Health food covers 6 sample categories, including samples with function of weight control, assisting blood sugar reduction, sleep improvement, alleviating physical fatigue/enhancing immune, assisting blood pressure reduction, and assisting blood lipids reduction.

1.2 Plant Protein Beverage involves soy milk beverage, peanut milk beverage and so on.

1.3 Convenience Food involves instant noodles, flour flavoured product and so on.

2. Test Items of Sampling Food

Food category		Test items
Health food	samples with function of weight control	7 chemical drugs (including sibutramine, ephedrine and so on)
	samples with function of assisting blood sugar reduction	13 chemical drugs (including tolbutamide, glibenclamide and so on)
	samples with function of sleep improvement	22 chemical drugs (including chlordiazepoxide, nitrazepam and so on)
	samples with function of alleviating physical fatigue/enhancing immune	13 chemical drugs (including hongdenafil, vardenafil and so on)
	samples with function of assisting blood pressure reduction	12 chemical drugs (including atenolol, reserpine and so on)
	samples with function of assisting blood lipids reduction	3 chemical drugs (including lovastatin, simvastatin and so on)
Plant protein beverage		Peanut components, melamine and so on
Convenience food		Potassium bromate, auramine and so on

3. Casual Inspection Work Tasks of FDA Departments

FDA	Sampling category	Sampling batch	Sampling place	Sampling time plan
CFDA	Health food	200	Wholesale markets, supermarkets, grocery stores, retail pharmacies, network platform, etc.	All sampling and inspection shall be completed by 30 April, 2018.
	Plant protein beverage	200
	Convenience food	200
Provincial level	Health food	570	Wholesale markets, supermarkets, grocery stores, retail pharmacies, etc.
	Plant protein beverage	570
	Convenience food	855

CFDA issued 2018 Food Safety Casual Inspection Plan on 8 January, 2018. The plan covers 33 food categories, including health food, infant formula food and so on, and contains work tasks and inspection time plan of FDA. Soon afterwards, CFDA issued Implementation Rules on Food Safety Supervision and Casual Inspection (2018 version) on 24 January, 2018. The implementation rules formulate uniform requirements for supervision and casual inspection scope of application, sampling categories, based on test, sampling, inspection requirements, judging principle and conclusion. Thus it can be seen that the Work Program is specific implementation of 2018 Food Safety Casual Inspection Plan, and specific requirements can refer to the Work Program and .

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Reference

CFDA Notice on Release of Food and Health Food Special Casual Inspection and Monitoring (2018 version)

CFDA Issued Implementation Rules on Food Safety Supervision and Casual Inspection (2018 version)

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