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Article: China to Issue New Standards of Health Food
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 21, 1997
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China is to issue new state standards for the production,
marketing and administration of health food from May 1, aiming to
guide the fast-growing industry in a sound direction.
The standards define the concept of health food, product
classification, general principles, technical requirements and
requirements on tags, said a report in today's "China Daily".
The standards were drafted last year by the National Technical
Committee of Standardization for the Health Food Industry and were
approved by the State Bureau of Technical Supervision last month.
They classify health food products into 13 categories according to
their effect on influencing human functions, while stressing that
health food ...