Procedures for renewing healthy food certificates
China
Dec 19, 2024
The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the National Health Commission (NHC) and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued the announcement on the “Catalogue of Health Functions Allowed for Health Claims of Non-Nutritional Supplements (2023 Edition)" and documents, stipulating that since the announcement, the functional claims of health food products shall be standardized within 5 years from the date of release. In October 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Key Points for the Review of Renewal of Centralized Certificate of Health Food in Production and Sale with No Validity Period and Product Technical Requirements".
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