The expert points out: The health food is different from medicines Distinguish and choose to have way

The expert points out: The health food is different from medicines Distinguish and choose to have way
Www.xinhuanet.com Taiyuan August 30 special despatch ( Reporter Liu XiangXiao) While buying medicines, patients will often meet such a situation: It is both vitamin, mineral element products, full of medicines, but some are the health food, how to distinguish and choose on earth?
The expert of municipal Bureau of Drugs Supervision of Taiyuan says, the health food is not medicines, but particular food.
Medicines are used for the treatment, diagnosis of disease and prevent, the health food is used for keeping healthy and assisting treating. There are the following obvious differences between the two:

Production and composition, production capacity and technological terms of prescription of medicines should be supervised the department and examined strictly by national medicine, and check strictly through pharmacology, pathology and virus and the clinical observation for many years, can put into the market upon approval. The health product does not need and can be put into the market when waiting for the clinical experiment of the hospital.
The intersection of quality control and difference of production process. The medicines vitamin products must be produced in the pharmaceutical factory, the air must accord with national medicine and supervise the quality control request to the pharmaceutical factory of the department while cleaning degree, aseptic standard, raw materials quality,etc.; And as food vitamin product ' Eat the shop) ,Can produce in the food factory, the standard of its production process is lower than the production standard of medicines.
Difference of curative effect. Medicines pass a large amount of clinical verification, and supervise the department and examine sanctioning through national medicine, there is strict indication, have certain curative effect to treat disease; Have not treated function as the health product of the food, does not need to undergo clinical verification, only examine hygiene indexes such as the pollutant, bacterium,etc., it is qualified to go on the market and sell.
The expert briefs on, consumers, while choosing the products, in order to guarantee safely, the ones that had better choose national medicine to supervise the department and sanction mark " OTC " (non-prescribed medicine) Medicines of the words, read and enclose the detailed manual while buying, and the dosage recommended according to the manual strictly is taken, don't be ultra the dosage is taken.
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