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[Label identities and basic situation of health food in Changsha]
Biao Zeng1, Zhenqiu Sun, Ming Hu
1Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Objective:
To study the relevant information on the label of health food in Changsha, and provide scientific evidence for health food hygienic supervision.
Methods:
Investigation was conducted in department stores, supermarkets, pharmacies, and wholesale markets in the 5 districts in Changsha with multistage stratified sampling method. Self designed basic information of health food questionnaire was used to investigate the quality of labels the health food products.
Results:
Among the 408 random samples, the unidentified rates of label items were ranked in descending order: functional components (49.8%), unsuited community (27.9%), manufacturing date (23.0%), approval number and others (9.6%). The qualified rates of labels were different in different management types (χ(2)=59.793, P<0.05): the highest rate was in supermarkets (71.15%), followed by pharmacies (70.07%), shopping malls (57.47%), and wholesale markets (26.23%).
Conclusion:
The supervision of label identities of health food should be strengthened, especially for the health food in the wholesale markets.
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