Improve metabolism, prevent cancer and cancer, enhance immunity & hellip; with the increasing attention of citizens to health care, there are more and more kinds of health care products on the market, and the concept of advocacy is dazzling. So what does a national certified health product look like? There must be a little blue hat logo.
The concept of health care products is not clear
The survey objects in this report are mainly local residents with household registration, involving six districts, such as Hongkou, Huangpu, Pudong, Putuo, Songjiang, Xuhui, etc., with 1800 questionnaires and 1741 valid ones, with an average age of 41.94. The report shows that less than 30% of the citizens are satisfied with the health care consumer market. In terms of cognition, 60% of the citizens could not clearly distinguish the differences among health food, ordinary food and medicine.
According to the general standard of health food, health food is a kind of food, which has the common characteristics of general food, can regulate the function of human body, and is suitable for specific people to eat, but not for the purpose of treating diseases. At the same time, the State Food and drug administration has adopted the special mark as health food and defined 27 specific functions. This means that for ordinary people, as long as there is no "little blue hat" food, it can not be considered as "authentic" health food. However, the survey results show that only 18.15% of consumers think that health food must have the "little blue hat" logo, and more than 80% of the public can not correctly identify the health food logo.
The municipal Consumer Protection Commission pointed out that although the Ministry of health and the State Food and drug administration have formulated clear legal concepts for health food, there is a serious gap between the concept of health food in legal concept and the concept used by businesses, and consumers are dazzled by health food, functional food, health nutrition, medical nutrition, nutritional supplements, etc. it is suggested that relevant departments start with the concept To clarify the difference between the concept of state approval and business use, so as to "clean up the source" of the chaotic health care product market.
Unclear efficacy of health food
The survey found that 46.6% of the citizens could not tell the efficacy of health food clearly. The proportion of people who thought that the efficacy was great or large was 10.5% and 8.4% respectively, less than 20%, while the proportion of people who thought that the efficacy was small or completely invalid was 24.4% and 10.1% respectively.
According to the health industry professional office of the municipal Consumer Protection Commission, the concept of "health care" advocated by businesses is often lack of discrimination among middle-aged and elderly citizens, which is easy to fall into consumption disputes. Recently, Ms. Qin, an elderly consumer from Jiading, complained to the consumer insurance commission that she and her wife had been buying the polysaccharide colostrum powder of a biotechnology company since 1997. The businessmen claimed that the product had high anti-cancer and anti-cancer effect and improved immune function. They also advocated that after taking the product, those who did not have cancer could prevent and cure cancer naturally.
In the past ten years, the husband and wife have spent nearly 120000 yuan in savings. Ironically, however, consumers who have been eating health food for more than a decade have recently been found to have severe bowel cancer. The operation is imminent, but the cost of the operation can never be taken out. Ms. Qin asked businesses to return nearly 20000 yuan worth of unused health care products, but was mercilessly refused. However, the consumer Insurance Commission asked for help to return the remaining products and find out whether the products have anti-cancer ingredients.
In the subsequent investigation, the committee found that although the product has a legal approval number for health food, in some areas, there are products that have been investigated and punished by the relevant administrative organs due to the substandard nutritional content. 'like other foods, health food, even if it meets the production standards of relevant products, can not guarantee that every health food circulating in the market will always meet the standards. Therefore, even if the products with certain efficacy are consumed for a long time, consumers can not ignore the tracking of product safety. "Said the person in charge of the health industry professional office of the municipal consumer Insurance Commission.
There is a regulatory gap in health care devices
In addition to health food, health equipment is also the focus of many people's attention. In the first half of this year, there were nearly 200 complaints about 'health care equipment', an increase of 17% year on year. According to the survey, there is a great demand for fitness equipment, massager and health equipment. About 30% of families have purchased and used all kinds of family health equipment.
According to the committee, some of these health-care devices are actually ordinary fitness devices with fitness function, while others are medical devices with prevention, diagnosis and treatment functions, but most citizens can't distinguish the difference between them.
In fact, the so-called health care equipment can be listed as long as it passes the safety certification, but for the later efficacy standard, it is almost blank. The Consumer Protection Commission clearly pointed out that up to now, the state has no clear standards and regulations for health equipment, even no special health equipment registration department, nor clear regulatory department, which may lead to more consumer disputes and commercial fraud in the consumption of health equipment.
The municipal Consumer Protection Commission suggested that the relevant departments of the state should clarify the supervision as soon as possible, issue relevant policies and regulations, and strengthen the supervision of the health care products market. The trade association should also take the initiative to promote the enterprises to strengthen self-discipline and gradually standardize the enterprise behavior by formulating industry standards.
What is a little blue hat?
Blue hat is a health food mark approved and certified by relevant national authorities. The outer package of the approved products is marked with the word "guoshijian", which is sky blue and in the shape of a hat, commonly known as "blue hat". In the field of health food, blue hat is the pass, which symbolizes excellent quality. Regular health food will be marked with sky blue and "hat" sign on the outer packing box of the product, and the approval number of the health food will be marked below.
From the declaration to the acquisition of "blue hat", health food has to go through five stages: preparation of application materials, sample production, on-site verification of trial production, sample submission and expert review. There is a special intermediary agency on the market to help enterprises declare "blue hat". The intermediary first makes a "perfect formula" for the declaring enterprises and is responsible for sorting out the written declaration materials. In order to ensure that the samples are sent for inspection, the intermediary will ensure that no accidents occur through public relations. The last stage is the review meeting of the expert group, which is composed of the expert groups drawn from the expert database by the relevant competent departments, and votes to determine the 'blue hat' certification of the enterprise.