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Are health products medicines?
Health food belongs to the category of food, not medicine.

The State Administration of Pharmaceutical Products has stipulated the expression format of drug approval number and trial production drug approval number, and the unified format is "Chinese medicine standard (trial) word+1 Chinese pinyin +8 Arabic numerals".

Among them, the word "quasi" stands for drugs approved by the state for formal production, and the word "trial" stands for drugs approved by the state for trial production. "The 1 Chinese phonetic alphabet after the standard Chinese medicine stands for drug category, that is, H stands for chemical drugs, S stands for biological products, J stands for imported sub-packaged drugs, T stands for in vitro chemical diagnostic reagents, F stands for pharmaceutical excipients, B stands for health care drugs, and Z stands for traditional Chinese medicine.

The health care product is a special health food logo with a sky blue shape similar to "police tactical unit" on the regular outer packaging box, and the approval number is marked below, such as "document number ×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××

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The difference between health food and medicine

First, drugs are substances that treat diseases; The essence of health food is food. Although it has the function of regulating some functions of human body, it is not a substance that human beings rely on to treat diseases.

There is also a kind of special nutritious food in food, which is "food to meet the nutritional needs of some special people by changing the composition and content ratio of natural nutrients in food". For example, infant foods that meet the physiological characteristics and nutritional needs of infants and foods with nutritional fortifiers belong to this category.

The similarity between special nutritious food and health food: both of them add or contain a certain amount of physiologically active substances, which are suitable for specific people to eat.

Second, the former does not need animal or human experiments to confirm; The latter must be proved by animal or human experiments, and the curative effect is obvious and stable.

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