Meal Replacement Foods: A Weight Loss Artifact or a Trap?

If you have no time to cook, come with a bottle of meal replacement milkshake; if you gain weight, let meal replacement powder "take over" three meals a day.

question:

Some criminals add chemical diet pills to meal replacements

"Qualified meal replacement food should have low energy but reasonable formula and comprehensive and balanced nutrition, but many products currently on the market cannot meet this requirement

Not only that, when some companies promote meal replacement food, in addition to marking the "0 sugar, 0 calories and 0 fat" expected by consumers, they will also actively guide consumers to equate meal replacement food with weight loss and fat reduction.

Ou Zhuangzhe also pointed out that in order to attract consumers to buy and cater to consumers' desire to lose weight quickly, some criminals do not hesitate to add chemical weight loss drugs such as sibutramine and sodium pickle sulfate to meal replacements, laxative ingredients, and random Adding dosage, some products have high drug content, which seriously endangers the health of consumers

Suggest:

Implement a production license system or filing system for meal replacement food

To this end, Ou Zhuangzhe suggested that Guangdong speed up the formulation of mandatory standards for meal replacement foods

"The regulatory authorities strengthen the inspection and monitoring of e-commerce platforms and physical stores, strengthen the supervision and sampling of meal replacement foods that claim to lose weight and lose weight, and increase punishment for illegal businesses and enterprises suspected of false propaganda, consumption fraud and illegal additions.

Ou Zhuangzhe also suggested to increase the publicity and popularization of health knowledge to help the public realize that scientific and effective weight loss requires the establishment of a scientific lifestyle, proper diet control, and physical exercise

Response:

100% spot checks will be conducted on corporate standards whose standard name includes "meal replacement"

"Meal replacement foods are mostly sold in the market in the name of ordinary food, and the product forms are varied and the product quality is uneven.

The Provincial Health Commission stated that according to the "Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China", meal replacement food does not meet the definition of local specialty food and does not belong to the scope of the establishment of local food safety standards

The Provincial Health and Health Commission stated that after receiving the proposal, it will immediately verify the registered meal replacement food enterprise standards through the Guangdong Provincial Food Safety Enterprise Standard Filing Information System

The Provincial Health and Health Commission stated that it plans to include meal replacement food as one of the popular science contents of this year's National Nutrition Week and Chinese Student Nutrition Day theme publicity activities, focusing on the safety and nutrition themes of meal replacement food.

The Provincial Health and Health Commission also stated that the next step will be combined with its own functions, increase the scope of popularization of nutrition and health knowledge, and guide the public to establish a correct eating pattern; implement the requirements of the most stringent standards, and strengthen the spot check and verification of the standards of meal replacement companies.