The special food safety supervision situation in 2023 is steadily improving (with an infographic for easy understanding)

Registration reform continues to deepen, coordinating the promotion of high-quality development and high-level safety in special food safety work. The dual-track reform of health food registration and filing has made significant breakthroughs, opening up new function declarations for health foods, standardizing health food function claims, improving technical evaluations, and expanding the health food raw material catalog, effectively stimulating new market momentum. The policy guidance effect is gradually emerging, and the number of filed products is growing rapidly. Throughout the year, 875 health food registrations were approved, and 3,423 health food filing certificates were issued, an increase of 2.5% compared to 2022; by the end of 2023, China had approved 12,100 health food registrations and issued 16,200 health food filing certificates. The development trend of special medical purpose formula foods continues to improve, with 70 product registrations approved in 2023, setting a new annual registration record. By the end of 2023, the high-quality completion of the new national standard registration task for infant formula milk powder was achieved, with 134 enterprises approved to register 1,028 infant formula milk powder product formulas under the new national standard, ensuring stable market supply. On the basis of safeguarding special food safety, efforts are strengthened in scientific and technological innovation, technological reform, and product updates, continuously consolidating the foundation for high-quality development of the special food industry.

Implement the "Four Strictest" requirements to prevent and resolve risks throughout the entire process of special foods. Various measures such as supervision inspections, research exchanges, training assistance, and typical demonstrations are taken to urge and guide enterprises to equip food safety directors and food safety officers, establish and improve the "daily control, weekly inspection, monthly scheduling" work mechanism, dynamically improve and strictly implement the risk control checklist, continuously deepen and implement the "two responsibilities" for special food safety, achieving positive results. Daily supervision and inspection efforts are continuously increased, the "full coverage" system inspection normalization mechanism is continuously improved, special actions focusing precisely on public concerns are carried out to effectively ensure special food safety. In 2023, a total of 2.092 million inspections of special food production and operation enterprises were conducted nationwide, with 169,000 problems found; system inspections were completed for 525 health food production enterprises, and full coverage system inspections were completed for 111 infant formula milk powder production enterprises and 33 special medical purpose formula food production enterprises nationwide. With a sense of responsibility of "always concerned," adhering to prevention first and early intervention, through case analysis, experience exchange, expert interpretation, and other methods, risk prevention and control exchanges are promoted to become normalized and long-term, improving the risk prevention awareness and handling capabilities of regulatory departments and enterprises, effectively preventing and resolving emerging and potential risk hazards.