我国的《食品卫生法》和1996年颁布的《保健食品管理办法》为我国保健食品确定了法律地位。为了规范保健食品的市场,卫生部依法积极开展了保健食品的审批工作,同时有计划、有步骤地组织开展了全国保健食品的市场整顿。1996年至1998年两年多以来经卫生部审查并获批准的保健食品已近2000 China’s “Food Sanitation Law” and the “Health Food Management Measures” promulgated in 1996 set the legal status for our health food products. In order to regulate the market for health food, the Ministry of Health actively conducted the examination and approval of health food in accordance with the law, and organized the market rectification of the national health food in a planned and systematic manner. Nearly 2,000 health food products have been examined and approved by the Ministry of Health since 1996 to 1998 in more than two years