New regulation or empty talk on Cordyceps health food

Business news on November 5 recently, the website of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA, hereinafter referred to as the State Food and Drug Administration) published a "pilot work program of Cordyceps sinensis for health food" (hereinafter referred to as the "program"), which is the first time that the State Food and drug administration allows the direct use of Cordyceps sinensis as the raw material of health food Industry insiders believe that although the competent authorities hope to rectify the market, some fundamental disputes about Cordyceps have not yet been resolved, and some references in the plan are not scientific and reasonable, which inevitably turns into empty talk In 2009, the Ministry of Health issued a document forbidding the use of Cordyceps sinensis as raw materials to produce food, but there was no regulation on whether Cordyceps sinensis could be used to produce health food But now the market is full of health products containing Cordyceps According to Xu Huafeng, secretary-general of China Health Care Association, in the past, the State Food and drug administration only allowed the extract of Cordyceps sinensis to be used in the production of health products, but now the new regulations show that Cordyceps sinensis can be used as raw materials for the production of health products The plan also refers to the specific requirements for the business scale of the enterprise In terms of "having good production capacity of health food", the plan requires that "the annual sales of health food industrial products of pilot enterprises should be more than 1 billion yuan (the production enterprises of health food of origin can be appropriately relaxed)." "The annual sales scale of the health products enterprises that are required to produce Cordyceps sinensis health food is more than 1 billion yuan, which may be that the competent party hopes that the enterprises will have a larger scale, which is convenient for standardized management." Xu Huafeng explains Query in the industry "This plan requires pilot enterprises to have stable and legal sources of Cordyceps sinensis, to be able to provide purchase and sales contracts signed with relevant units in resource provinces that can guarantee large-scale production The production scale of products is compatible with the obtained resources of Cordyceps sinensis, and can guarantee the sustainability of production, but in fact, the raw materials of natural Cordyceps sinensis are only more than 100 tons per year at most, How to ensure the sustainability of production? " An expert on Cordyceps questioned large-scale production Wei Jiangchun, a lichen Mycologist and researcher of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, thinks that "it's good to have dozens of tons of Cordyceps" In the view of industry experts, artificial breeding is not successful, and natural resources are constantly exhausted It is empty talk for enterprises to ensure production scale Some people in the industry think that to develop the Cordyceps industry, what is most needed is a clear standard Although some Cordyceps producing areas claim to have issued local standards In September 2007, Qinghai, one of the main producing areas of Cordyceps sinensis, first issued a local standard, which is reflected in the management of Cordyceps sinensis But up to now, there is no national standard of Cordyceps sinensis "At present, we can't even say that the standard for the identification of Cordyceps sinensis is very accurate Such a standard is very difficult to work out." For example, an expert said that the plan mentioned that the pilot health food enterprises should carry out scientific research on Cordyceps sinensis, "so what direction should be chosen for scientific research? What to do? None of this is clear " (China business daily) reporter observation: Cordyceps tangled in the dispute of effect is a magical Chinese herbal medicine in the concept of many consumers, but in fact, for Cordyceps, there are many disputes in the academic community, the dispute comes from the supernatural effect One fact is that there is no record of Cordyceps sinensis in compendium of Materia Medica "The function and efficacy of Cordyceps mainly come from ancient literature and legends Its active ingredients are not clear, and its mechanism of action is not clear." Wei Jiangchun pointed out that the function of Cordyceps is still lack of sufficient, reliable and nationally recognized clinical and population experimental reports He said that the current situation of the Cordyceps industry is that false advertising is rampant, and the effect of Cordyceps is amazing.