Health products are the popular name for health food. Article 3 of GB 16740-97 "General Standard for Health (Functional) Foods" defines health foods as: "Health (Functional) foods refer to a kind of foods that have the commonness of general foods, can regulate human functions, and are suitable for specific people to eat, but are not aimed at treating diseases."
Health food contains a certain amount of functional ingredients, which can regulate human functions and have specific effects, and is suitable for specific people to eat. General food has no specific function and no specific scope for human consumption. Health food can not be directly used to treat diseases, but is a human mechanism regulator and nutritional supplement. And drugs are directly used to treat diseases.
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According to experts, 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 quasi (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 1 and 2 digits of the Arabic numerals after the Chinese phonetic alphabet indicate the source of the approval number, in which 10 indicates drugs approved by the former Ministry of Health, 19 and 20 indicate drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and drugs approved by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government also have numerical codes. For example, the number code of the US Food and Drug Administration in Hubei is 42.
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