Xinhua Daily News reported that in large supermarkets and pharmacies, deep-sea fish oil from the United States, New Zealand's colostrum tablets, sheep's placenta in Canada, collagen, etc., are sought after by many consumers, but its quality supervision also Urgently pay attention.

The reporter learned from the Jiangsu Inspection and Quarantine Bureau on the 26th that the current increase in the import of such foods is indeed relatively large. Only 12 batches of 6.29 tons of special functional foods were imported from the port of Zhangjia port from January to August. However, the quarantine staff found that since June 2009, the port has continuously detected 3 batches of imported special function foods that exceeded the standard, including two batches of kangaroo meat extract capsules imported from Australia, and the detection value of the mold and lead exceeded the mandatory level in China. 10 times the standard. When a group of "cow colostrum soft capsules" entered the province in the recent days, their mold content was detected to exceed the national standard limit of 4.5 times.

According to quarantine experts, imports of special function foods are high-risk and sensitive foods concerned by the country. They are similar to our general health products. However, such foods do not have the qualifications of health products and corresponding approval documents, and are often only required for customs clearance. According to the general food inspection.

The AQSIQ Import and Export Food Safety Bureau issued a warning notice for this, clearly requiring the inspection and quarantine departments throughout the country to further strengthen the supervision of such foods, increase the sampling proportion of this type of food by 20%, and strengthen the inspection of relevant food microbes, strictly Execute relevant food standards and allow import after inspection.