The Study of Dietary Supplements Relief Mechanism

• Main Author: 許哲瑋
• Other Authors: TSENG,YU-YU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ve4kx4

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 法律學系 === 105 === Along with the thriving economic growth and the burgeoning per capita GDP, average life expectancy in Taiwan has been breaking its record high year by year. Dietary supplements are hence getting demanded in the market to meet the needs of the aged-growing public and are deemed to be the vital antidotes of the increasing chronic diseases. Under the circumstances, its related laws and regulations started to be enacted all around the world, not only to credit its positive therapeutic effects but to ensure and to consolidate the consumer rights and privileges. However, after the HEALTH FOOD CONTROL ACT was legislated in Taiwan, only when the dietary supplements certified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be classified as Health Food, whose curative effect is officially claimed, while all the others can only be called as Food, which as a result making Dietary Supplement, a public-using word, in an ambiguous position. Public confusion over health food and dietary supplement therefore ironically elbows through unscrupulous vendors a space to shift the responsibility once their products come into legal liability by juggling with legislative terms and definitions, and in a way becomes a substantial handicap for consumers whose body health being harmed and damaged due to daily consumption of the defected dietary supplement products a vulnerable and disadvantage situation to confront with the vendors. Therefore, the importance to establish a dietary supplement relief mechanism is an action can not be waited and the subject of this essay.