In 2019, State Administration for Market Regulation issued a circular, calling for strengthening the implementation of special clean-up and ctification actions in the health food industry.
All of the health food sold in the Chinese market need to conform to the "measures for the registration and filing of health food", "national standard of food safety" (GB 16740) and relevant product standards.
CTT can provide testing services such as health indicators, functional ingredients and various banned additives (including but not limited to the following) :
Types | Items | |
Functional component | Puerarin, total flavonoids, soy isoflavone, melatonin, Proanthocyanidines, etc. | |
Banned additive | Weight-losing products | Sibutramine, N- Monodesmethyl sibutramine hydrochloride, N,N-Didesmethyl sibutramine ydrochloride, fenfluramine, phenolphthalein, furosemide, ephedrine, ect. |
Auxiliary hypoglycemic products | Tolbutamide, glyburide, gliclazide, glipizide, gliquidone, glimepiride, phenformin hydrochloride, metformin hydrochloride, formin hydrochloride, ect. | |
Improve sleep products | Midazolam maleate, nitrazepam, estazolam,oxazepam, alprazolam, lorazepam, barbiturates, phenobarbital, ect. | |
Relief of physical fatigue/improving immune products | Nor-acetildenafil, acetildenafil, vardenafil, hydroxyhomosildenafil, sildenafil, tadalafil, ect. | |
Auxiliary hypotensive products | Atenolol,clonidine hydrochloride, hydrochlorothiazide, captopril, prazosin, reserpine, nifedipine, ect. | |
Auxiliary hyperlipidemic products | Lovastatin, simvastatin, niacin, ect. | |
Microorganism | CFU, coliform, mould, yeast, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus, ect. | |
Physicochemical indexes | Moisture, soluble solid, acid value, peroxide value, Pb, As, Hg, Cd, food additives, disintegration time, ect. |