Health foods medicines: Beijing market regulation issues Double Ninth Festival consumption tips

As the Double Ninth Festival approaches, in recent years, some unscrupulous merchants have targeted the elderly, exploiting health anxieties and using tactics such as free gifts, illegal health product sales events, and private-domain livestreaming to exaggerate the efficacy of health foods and induce blind consumption among older people. Today, the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Administration issued a consumer advisory, reminding consumers to choose health foods scientifically and rationally. Health foods refer to foods that claim and possess specific health functions or are intended to supplement vitamins and minerals. That is, foods suitable for consumption by specific populations, which have the function of regulating body functions, are not intended to treat diseases, and do not cause acute, subacute, or chronic harm to the human body.