Food "new regulation" should add the variety of traditional Chinese medicine as food

Recently, the legal department of the State Food and drug administration asked for the revision opinions of the food safety law of the people's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the "food safety law") on its official website Zhang Jinsheng, a standing member of the Chinese society of traditional Chinese medicine and vice chairman of the flower food professional committee of China Food Industry Association, told Beijing Business Daily: "the food safety law has not met the needs of modern people's lives In the new food safety law, some varieties of traditional Chinese medicine materials should be expanded into food, with the same source of medicine and food, and some healthy people of traditional Chinese medicine can eat them For example, traditional Chinese medicine such as Rabdosia rubescens and okra can be used as food " According to Article 99 of the current food safety law, "food refers to all kinds of finished products and raw materials for human consumption or drinking, as well as articles that are both food and medicine according to tradition, but excluding articles for the purpose of treatment" There are about 100 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in the list of both food and Medicine published by the Ministry of health, such as clove price, star anise price, concanavaline price, fennel price, artichoke price, yam price, hawthorn price, purslane price, wuzao snake price, Wumei price, etc In addition to these Chinese medicinal materials for food, other Chinese medicinal materials are prescribed as drugs Article 86 of the food safety law stipulates that it is illegal for food producers and operators to add drugs to food The relevant competent departments shall, according to their respective responsibilities, confiscate the illegal income, food illegally produced and operated, tools, equipment, raw materials and other articles used in the illegal production and operation If the value of the food illegally produced and operated is less than 10000 yuan, 2000 yuan shall be added A fine of not more than 50000 yuan shall be imposed; a fine of not less than twice but not more than five times the value of the goods, if the value of the goods is not less than 10000 yuan, shall be imposed; if the circumstances are serious, production and business suspension shall be ordered, or even the license shall be revoked It is understood that some herbal teas in the south of China contain many traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, and these traditional Chinese medicine varieties are not included in the list of both medicine and food stipulated by the Ministry of health "The current food safety law is no longer in line with people's living needs and needs to be changed The proposal of the association will be fully taken into consideration by the relevant departments of the state " Zhang Jinsheng said "Under the suggestion of relevant associations, the qualitative analysis of traditional Chinese medicine materials will be more accurate, and the variety of traditional Chinese medicine materials will be expanded into food." Zhang Jinsheng told the Beijing Business Daily that, for example, the price of Rabdosia rubescens can be drunk as tea, and healthy people can drink it Yellow okra salad, hot fry, soup can be eaten At present, traditional Chinese medicine enterprises not only produce traditional Chinese medicine, but also process the configuration of traditional Chinese medicine into health products or food, transforming into a large health industry If the new method can expand the variety of Chinese herbal medicine into food, it is undoubtedly a good thing for Chinese herbal medicine enterprises Zhang Hai, chairman of Jishi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd in Jiyuan City, Henan Province, was heartened to hear the news He said: "there are records in the literature of traditional Chinese medicine in the Ming Dynasty The price of Rabdosia rubescens is edible and has no side effects."