1131. The supplement. サプリメント
The supplement is a functional indication food.
It was introduced 10 years ago as one of the Abenomics.
If you register any supplements, the Consumer Affairs Agency will approve them without examination.
The latest social problem is the flood of supplements.
There are many advertisements for supplements that take up a page of the newspaper.
It is an advertisement for the functional indication food for insomnia or to combat obesity.
As a result, the number of supplements exceeds 6 thousand and the market will reach 7 hundred billion yen, they say.
Most people have taken them for a long time.
But from the beginning, we have been worried about excessive advertising and damage to health.
This time, "Beni-Koji", which was a supplement to control bad cholesterol, caused kidney damage.
It is said that the blue mold was mixed in during the manufacturing process.
Five people have died and more than a hundred are in hospital.
The damage is spreading to China and Taiwan.
A supplement is different from Tokuho (special health food), which needs to be inspected by the government.
What is the difference between medicine and food supplements?
Medicine is for a sick person and supplements are for a person who wants to promote a healthy body.
Supplements are not medicine, it's like food.
And medicine is always under the doctor, and pharmacist, and supplements do not have these restrictions.
functional indication food 機能性表示食品
Consumer Affairs Agency 消費者庁 approve 承認
insomnia 不眠症 obesity 肥満 excessive 過剰
kidney 腎臓 mold カビ inspect 検査
promote 推進する pharmacist 薬剤師
restrictions 制限
