Abstract: With the rapid development of health food in China, there have been an increasing number of relevant laws and regulations as well as standards for health food from 1995, when Food Hygiene Law granted health food legal status, until the implementation of Food Safety Law. In order to ensure a good development situation of health food regulation and standard systems, the current status of China’s regulation system and standard system for health food is summarized based on the promulgated laws and regulations related to application and approval, raw materials and auxiliary materials, labels and instructions, test and inspection, and production management of health food.

Key words: health food, regulation system, standard system, law, food