"Monkey biscuits, made of Hericium erinaceus, nourish the stomach; Eat a little in the morning and a little in the afternoon. " The monkey biscuits produced and processed by the group and invited by "talented women" Xu earned enough attention as soon as they went on the market. But at the same time, it also caused public opinion to question whether monkey biscuits are drugs or food.
According to the website of China Food and Drug Administration, the biscuit production license number applied by Fujian Zhenghongfu Food Co., Ltd. is QS3500080 1 1570, indicating that the biscuit products produced by this company belong to food. At the same time, the reporter didn't see the "little blue hat" logo unique to authentic health food on the outer packaging box of Monkey Gu biscuits.
Fan Zhihong, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, College of Food Science, China Agricultural University, said in an interview that whether monkey biscuits have health care effects on gastrointestinal diseases needs to be confirmed by medical experiments conducted by reliable medical institutions. This product is a common food, not a medicine, and there is no batch number of health food. It is illegal to claim health care efficacy without authorization.
Jiang Zhong Group highlighted "nourishing stomach" in the advertisement of monkey biscuits. On the web page of the monkey biscuit published by a Taobao seller, the word "function" appeared in the product description: "The content of monkey mushroom in the monkey biscuit is 1 1% (daily dose is 10g), which far exceeds the therapeutic dose (6-8g/ day), so the monkey mushroom has the function of the monkey biscuit." However, the definition of 27 specific functions of health products by China Food and Drug Administration does not include the theory of "nourishing the stomach".
In addition, the product description on the outer packaging of Monkey Gu biscuit is also blurring the difference between ordinary food and health care products: "Suitable for people: patients with stomach diseases; How to eat: It is recommended to eat 2 ~ 3 packs a day. " Regarding the difference between health care products and other foods, there are actually specific standards: health care foods emphasize specific health care functions, have prescribed consumption, and have specific suitable people and unsuitable people according to their different health care functions, while other foods generally do not distinguish.
Reasons for fraudulent use of health food
According to insiders, the reason why ordinary food pretends to be health food is because of economic reasons. In general, it takes 1 ~ 2 months to register the brand name "Shi", but the safety requirements of health food are higher than that of ordinary food, and it takes 2 ~ 3 years to register the brand name "Jian". And with the improvement of public purchasing power and health awareness, many consumers are willing to spend a lot of money on the description of health care, prevention and treatment of products. When it is difficult for consumers to regard a food as ordinary food by exaggerating its efficacy and publicizing its packaging, the relevant production and sales enterprises can make high profits.