A: According to GB 13432-2013 National Food Safety Standard Labeling of Prepackaged Foods for Special Dietary Uses, the foods for special dietary uses (FSDU) refers to those which are specially processed or formulated to satisfy special dietary requirements under a particular physical or physiological condition and/or under specific diseases and disorders and other conditions. The content of nutrients and/or other nutritional components in these foodstuffs differ significantly from that of comparable ordinary foods.
Categories of FSDU:
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Currently, China has formed a FSDU standard system based on infant formula, complementary foods for infants and young children, FSMP and other foods for special dietary uses. In addition, China is drafting the National Food Safety Standard General Standard of Geriatric Foods and National Food Safety Standard Full Nutritional Formula Food for Tumor. Geriatric foods and full nutritional formula food for tumor also belong to FSDU.
FSMP belongs to FSDU. FSMP is especially formulated food that is produced to meet the special requirements for nutrient or meals of people who suffer from eating limitation, disorder of digestion and absorption, metabolic disorders or special disease state, FSMP shall be eaten individually or with other foods under the guidance of doctors or clinical dietitians. FSMP is not medicine, cannot be a substitute for medicine, and does not have disease prevention and treatment functions.
