Article 18 of the Advertising Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall not contain the following contents: (1) assertion or guarantee of efficacy and safety; (2) Involving the functions of disease prevention and treatment; (3) claiming or implying that the commodities advertised are necessary for health protection; (4) Compared with medicines and other health foods; (five) the use of advertising spokespersons for recommendation and proof; (6) Other contents prohibited by laws and administrative regulations. The advertisement of health food should clearly indicate that "this product cannot replace medicine". Nineteenth radio stations, television stations, audio-visual publishing units of newspapers and periodicals, and Internet information service providers shall not publish advertisements of medical treatment, medicines, medical devices and health food in disguised form by introducing health knowledge.
Is the promotion and health care function of ordinary food fraud?
It is not fraud to publicize the health care function of ordinary food. General food advertising promotes health care function, which is a description of its performance and function. According to the relevant laws and regulations, if the performance and function of the goods are inconsistent with the actual situation and have a substantial impact on the purchase behavior, they can be identified as false advertisements. The advertisement of ordinary food promotes the health care function, which is a false description of the performance and function of ordinary food itself, which is easy to cause misunderstanding by consumers and can be characterized as false advertisement.