Health functional food products
Proposed Draft Amendments to the Standards and Specification for Health Functional Foods.
The proposed amendments seek to:
1. Require manufacturer to follow Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP);
2. Clarify the list of ingredients approved to be used in enteric capsule, granule, tablet;
3. Expand the scope of approved ingredients can be mixed into semi-processed products to include oils and fats;
4. Establish standards of lead and cadmium in functional ingredients whose standards are not established;
5. Revise expression in standards and specifications "A~B" to "more than A and less than B";
6. Establish standards for acid value and peroxide value in "Edible Oil contain EPA and DHA";
7. Amend the name of a functional ingredient:
- Change "Lutein" to "Tagetes erecta Extract"; Revise test methods for functional ingredients (Ginsenoside).