On the 30th, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Special Supervision and Inspection Results of Heavy Metals for Health Foods Using Spirulina as the Raw Material." Brands such as Tomson BJ, Green A and Other brands were able to "recognize their names" and did not detect excessive levels of lead in heavy metals. The previous day, the brand Spirulina had just been exposed lead levels exceeded.
On the 29th, the Xinhua News Agency reported that the State Food and Drug Administration had determined that the lead content of various famous brands of spirulina exceeded the standard and required the provincial drug administrations to investigate. There are "lead exceeding standards" in products of the 6 major spirulina brands, including "Green A" and Tomson Biceng. Among them, "Yves" exceeds 20%; "Green A" and "Jin Aoli" both exceed 80%; "Tang Chen times health" exceeds 100%; "St. Orion" exceeds 200%; "Contrelis" exceeds 820%.
Yesterday, the results of the spot inspection announced by the State Food and Drug Administration showed that Kangasi Spirulina Tablets, Austrain Green Classic Spirulina Tablets, and Hong Yang Shen Spirulina 3 products were counterfeit health foods. The media reported that other products such as Green A brand Spirulina Tablets, Tomson Health Brand Spirulina Tablets and Jin Aoli Brand Sanda Spirulina Tablets, lead content in this supervision and inspection did not exceed the national standard.
The State Food and Drug Administration said that for counterfeiting and exceeding the limited standard products, the bureau has instructed the relevant food and drug supervision and management departments to deal with it strictly according to law, requiring the strengthening of the supervision and inspection of health foods with Spirulina as raw materials and ensuring the safety of consumers.
The relevant person in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration said that various localities have recently carried out special rectifications of supervision and inspection of health food production enterprises and the illegal addition of health foods, and crack down on illegal and illegal activities such as counterfeiting and illegal addition.
â– questioned companies involved in "confusing"
On February 29, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the “Notice on Strengthening Supervision and Inspection of Health Foods with Spirulina as Raw Material†([2012] No. 25) issued by the Food and Drug Administration of all localities, stating clearly that the State Food and Drug Administration had Health foods using Spirulina as a raw material began to monitor the indicators of lead, arsenic, and mercury. The results showed that some products detected lead and arsenic exceeding the standard and were attached with “Green Aâ€, “Thomson†and “Golden Aoliâ€. A list of unqualified products such as "Cheng Haihu", "Kangsi", "Shi Rui'an", "Austries", "Green Classic", "Hong Yang Shen", "U.S.-Australia Health", "Saint. Oliver", "Kantlis", "Gao Zhi", etc. However, the critical “unqualified†Spirulina product lot numbers, inspection standards, and testing agencies were not announced.
This notice marked as "expressive" has not been disclosed to the public. However, in the notification, the State Food and Drug Administration clearly required that: “The food and drug regulatory authorities in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) where the production enterprises of lead and arsenic exceeding standards are detected should immediately organize supervision and inspection, supervise product inspection according to law, and send attachments The food and drug inspection institute."
After the notification was issued, some local supervisory departments forwarded it on its official website, and asked various health food operating companies, pharmacies, and health food stores to conduct inspections, and checked each of the unqualified health food products announced in the notification of the State Food and Drug Administration. The registration of health foods and products whose raw materials were found to be unqualified was ordered, and the business units were ordered to stop sales and to recall the unqualified products sold. Some pharmacy managers reported to reporters that they had received notice from the local regulatory authorities and requested removal of these unqualified spirulina products.
After the Xinhua News Agency’s manuscript was broadcast, the results announced by the State Food and Drug Administration yesterday changed to only one of the 13 “unqualified†spirulina products on the list that exceeded the standard.
For the State Food and Drug Administration’s diametrically opposed test results, “Green A†and other related companies expressed to reporters that they were “headwateringâ€. The public even questioned: "Is the batch number of the two test results the same?" "Is the test standard uniform?"
When the reporter read the inspection data report released by the State Food and Drug Administration in the past, it was found that the notification generally contained the specific contents of the sample number, inspection standards, and test data. According to Xinhua News Agency
â– The standard dispute of lead standard limit 2mg or 0.5mg?
The reporter found that the results of the Spirulina products submitted by the media and the official sampling were different, mainly due to the different reference values.
According to the general standard for health (functional) foods (GB 16740-1997), the lead content of "general products" is not more than 0.5 mg/kg. However, the limit for "solid beverages and capsule products based on algae and tea" is ≤ 2.0 mg/kg. In the standard, there are no detailed regulations for algae-based tablets.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the mentioned lead exceeded standard Spirulina tablets are based on a standard of no more than 0.5 mg/kg. However, the State Food and Drug Administration has uniformly defined the standard of algae as raw material as “2.0 mg/kgâ€. .
The State Food and Drug Administration notified that: “In accordance with national standards and relevant standards set by the Ministry of Health and the State Food and Drug Administration, algae is the only raw material supplemented with a small amount of excipients, and its lead quota is 2.0 mg/kg. For products that do not use algae as the only raw material group, the lead quota limit is 0.5mg/kg."
If the lead limit is calculated based on the standard of “not exceeding 0.5 mg/kgâ€, the lead content of “Yves†is 0.6 mg/kg, exceeding 20%. "Green A" and "Tsinghua Unisplendour (King Ao Li)" were 0.9 mg/kg, both exceeding the standard 80%; "Tang Chen times healthy" 1.0 mg/kg, exceeding 100%.
Is there a clear test standard for newspaper reporter Wu Peng?
In the 13 “unqualified†lists published by the State Food and Drug Administration on February 29, the products “Green Aâ€, “Thomsonâ€, “Jin Aoli†and so on were clearly listed as tablets. However, in the latest announcement on March 30, the State Food and Drug Administration did not mention the classification criteria for dosage forms.
So why are there no specific regulations for spirulina tablets in national standards? Which standard should tablets refer to?
In this regard, the CNCA's “Guidelines for the implementation of the GMP (Healthy Product Code) of Health Food†clarified that “tabletsâ€, “capsules†and “solid beverages†belong to different dosage forms. Longmou, the technical director of “Green Aâ€, also admitted that the “Spirulina Extract†produced by the company is neither a capsule nor a solid drink but a tablet.
An expert reviewer of the State Food and Drug Administration interviewed by the reporter believes that the standard content of lead in spirulina tablets should be implemented with reference to the general product standards, that is, the limit is 0.5 mg/kg.
As for whether the lead content of spirulina tablets should be limited to 0.5 mg/kg or 2.0 mg/kg, Zhang Jinjing, deputy director of the Department of Health Food and Cosmetic Supervision of the State Food and Drug Administration stated that “tablets†are currently There is no clear test for lead content. "This is a category of academic discussion."
The reporters inquired that the standard content of lead in the spirulina nutrition tablets produced by a U.S. FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration) record company and an Australian company was 0.2 mg/kg.
In fact, the reporter found in the inspection report issued by a local regulatory agency in Zhongshan City, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province and a certain health food company that two batches of spirulina tablets of the company had lead test results of “0.79†and “0.87â€. , It was judged that the lead exceeded the standard and the spirulina product was sealed, destroyed, or returned. The technical representatives of a number of health food manufacturing companies visited by reporters in the field said that the standard for testing the lead content of spirulina tablets they performed was always “0.5â€.
According to Xinhua News Agency â– Market Response Green A Spirulina Restoration
In response to this incident, yesterday, Yang Zhihong, general manager of Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., said that some products did not come off shelves the previous day. With the announcement of the inspection results of the State Food and Drug Administration, the products of all shopping malls and pharmacies yesterday had been restored.
However, Yang Zhihong admitted that the incident had a certain impact on product sales. Yesterday, at the official Green A official flagship store of Taobao Mall, many consumers expressed their concern about the incident of “excessive lead†in their comments, and some even demanded “return of rightsâ€. Green A company posted the latest test results in the "Baby Details" section of the online shop's Spirulina Tablet product, informing consumers that Green A natural spirulina does not have quality problems.
In response to previous reports that the test was unqualified, Yang Zhihong stated that the Food and Drug Administration had to inspect a product and must inform the company. "But the company did not receive any notice at that time. We don't know if they are testing what we produced." (Reporter Wang Kara, Wu Peng)
On the 29th, the Xinhua News Agency reported that the State Food and Drug Administration had determined that the lead content of various famous brands of spirulina exceeded the standard and required the provincial drug administrations to investigate. There are "lead exceeding standards" in products of the 6 major spirulina brands, including "Green A" and Tomson Biceng. Among them, "Yves" exceeds 20%; "Green A" and "Jin Aoli" both exceed 80%; "Tang Chen times health" exceeds 100%; "St. Orion" exceeds 200%; "Contrelis" exceeds 820%.
Yesterday, the results of the spot inspection announced by the State Food and Drug Administration showed that Kangasi Spirulina Tablets, Austrain Green Classic Spirulina Tablets, and Hong Yang Shen Spirulina 3 products were counterfeit health foods. The media reported that other products such as Green A brand Spirulina Tablets, Tomson Health Brand Spirulina Tablets and Jin Aoli Brand Sanda Spirulina Tablets, lead content in this supervision and inspection did not exceed the national standard.
The State Food and Drug Administration said that for counterfeiting and exceeding the limited standard products, the bureau has instructed the relevant food and drug supervision and management departments to deal with it strictly according to law, requiring the strengthening of the supervision and inspection of health foods with Spirulina as raw materials and ensuring the safety of consumers.
The relevant person in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration said that various localities have recently carried out special rectifications of supervision and inspection of health food production enterprises and the illegal addition of health foods, and crack down on illegal and illegal activities such as counterfeiting and illegal addition.
â– questioned companies involved in "confusing"
On February 29, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the “Notice on Strengthening Supervision and Inspection of Health Foods with Spirulina as Raw Material†([2012] No. 25) issued by the Food and Drug Administration of all localities, stating clearly that the State Food and Drug Administration had Health foods using Spirulina as a raw material began to monitor the indicators of lead, arsenic, and mercury. The results showed that some products detected lead and arsenic exceeding the standard and were attached with “Green Aâ€, “Thomson†and “Golden Aoliâ€. A list of unqualified products such as "Cheng Haihu", "Kangsi", "Shi Rui'an", "Austries", "Green Classic", "Hong Yang Shen", "U.S.-Australia Health", "Saint. Oliver", "Kantlis", "Gao Zhi", etc. However, the critical “unqualified†Spirulina product lot numbers, inspection standards, and testing agencies were not announced.
This notice marked as "expressive" has not been disclosed to the public. However, in the notification, the State Food and Drug Administration clearly required that: “The food and drug regulatory authorities in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) where the production enterprises of lead and arsenic exceeding standards are detected should immediately organize supervision and inspection, supervise product inspection according to law, and send attachments The food and drug inspection institute."
After the notification was issued, some local supervisory departments forwarded it on its official website, and asked various health food operating companies, pharmacies, and health food stores to conduct inspections, and checked each of the unqualified health food products announced in the notification of the State Food and Drug Administration. The registration of health foods and products whose raw materials were found to be unqualified was ordered, and the business units were ordered to stop sales and to recall the unqualified products sold. Some pharmacy managers reported to reporters that they had received notice from the local regulatory authorities and requested removal of these unqualified spirulina products.
After the Xinhua News Agency’s manuscript was broadcast, the results announced by the State Food and Drug Administration yesterday changed to only one of the 13 “unqualified†spirulina products on the list that exceeded the standard.
For the State Food and Drug Administration’s diametrically opposed test results, “Green A†and other related companies expressed to reporters that they were “headwateringâ€. The public even questioned: "Is the batch number of the two test results the same?" "Is the test standard uniform?"
When the reporter read the inspection data report released by the State Food and Drug Administration in the past, it was found that the notification generally contained the specific contents of the sample number, inspection standards, and test data. According to Xinhua News Agency
â– The standard dispute of lead standard limit 2mg or 0.5mg?
The reporter found that the results of the Spirulina products submitted by the media and the official sampling were different, mainly due to the different reference values.
According to the general standard for health (functional) foods (GB 16740-1997), the lead content of "general products" is not more than 0.5 mg/kg. However, the limit for "solid beverages and capsule products based on algae and tea" is ≤ 2.0 mg/kg. In the standard, there are no detailed regulations for algae-based tablets.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the mentioned lead exceeded standard Spirulina tablets are based on a standard of no more than 0.5 mg/kg. However, the State Food and Drug Administration has uniformly defined the standard of algae as raw material as “2.0 mg/kgâ€. .
The State Food and Drug Administration notified that: “In accordance with national standards and relevant standards set by the Ministry of Health and the State Food and Drug Administration, algae is the only raw material supplemented with a small amount of excipients, and its lead quota is 2.0 mg/kg. For products that do not use algae as the only raw material group, the lead quota limit is 0.5mg/kg."
If the lead limit is calculated based on the standard of “not exceeding 0.5 mg/kgâ€, the lead content of “Yves†is 0.6 mg/kg, exceeding 20%. "Green A" and "Tsinghua Unisplendour (King Ao Li)" were 0.9 mg/kg, both exceeding the standard 80%; "Tang Chen times healthy" 1.0 mg/kg, exceeding 100%.
Is there a clear test standard for newspaper reporter Wu Peng?
In the 13 “unqualified†lists published by the State Food and Drug Administration on February 29, the products “Green Aâ€, “Thomsonâ€, “Jin Aoli†and so on were clearly listed as tablets. However, in the latest announcement on March 30, the State Food and Drug Administration did not mention the classification criteria for dosage forms.
So why are there no specific regulations for spirulina tablets in national standards? Which standard should tablets refer to?
In this regard, the CNCA's “Guidelines for the implementation of the GMP (Healthy Product Code) of Health Food†clarified that “tabletsâ€, “capsules†and “solid beverages†belong to different dosage forms. Longmou, the technical director of “Green Aâ€, also admitted that the “Spirulina Extract†produced by the company is neither a capsule nor a solid drink but a tablet.
An expert reviewer of the State Food and Drug Administration interviewed by the reporter believes that the standard content of lead in spirulina tablets should be implemented with reference to the general product standards, that is, the limit is 0.5 mg/kg.
As for whether the lead content of spirulina tablets should be limited to 0.5 mg/kg or 2.0 mg/kg, Zhang Jinjing, deputy director of the Department of Health Food and Cosmetic Supervision of the State Food and Drug Administration stated that “tablets†are currently There is no clear test for lead content. "This is a category of academic discussion."
The reporters inquired that the standard content of lead in the spirulina nutrition tablets produced by a U.S. FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration) record company and an Australian company was 0.2 mg/kg.
In fact, the reporter found in the inspection report issued by a local regulatory agency in Zhongshan City, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province and a certain health food company that two batches of spirulina tablets of the company had lead test results of “0.79†and “0.87â€. , It was judged that the lead exceeded the standard and the spirulina product was sealed, destroyed, or returned. The technical representatives of a number of health food manufacturing companies visited by reporters in the field said that the standard for testing the lead content of spirulina tablets they performed was always “0.5â€.
According to Xinhua News Agency â– Market Response Green A Spirulina Restoration
In response to this incident, yesterday, Yang Zhihong, general manager of Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., said that some products did not come off shelves the previous day. With the announcement of the inspection results of the State Food and Drug Administration, the products of all shopping malls and pharmacies yesterday had been restored.
However, Yang Zhihong admitted that the incident had a certain impact on product sales. Yesterday, at the official Green A official flagship store of Taobao Mall, many consumers expressed their concern about the incident of “excessive lead†in their comments, and some even demanded “return of rightsâ€. Green A company posted the latest test results in the "Baby Details" section of the online shop's Spirulina Tablet product, informing consumers that Green A natural spirulina does not have quality problems.
In response to previous reports that the test was unqualified, Yang Zhihong stated that the Food and Drug Administration had to inspect a product and must inform the company. "But the company did not receive any notice at that time. We don't know if they are testing what we produced." (Reporter Wang Kara, Wu Peng)
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