Efforts by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to Ensure the Safety of So-called Health Foods

Abstract

In order to take immediate steps to prevent any recurrence of the health damage caused by beni-koji-related products that occurred in March 2024, a meeting of relevant cabinet ministers was held on May 31, 2024, to formulate “Future Responses Regarding the Functional Food Labeling System”. Based on this policy, in order to make it mandatory for notifiers of Foods with Function Claims and licensees of Foods for Specified Health Uses to promptly provide information to prefectural governors, etc. when they receive information concerning any possible occurrence or spread of health damage related to such products, along with amendment of Food Labeling Standards, we have made partial amendments to the Regulations for Enforcement of the Food Sanitation Act.