TREE NEWS update: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation released three technical guidance documents for clinical trials of food for special medical purposes, covering sarcopenia, dyslipidemia, and obesity and bariatric surgery. The documents set out trial requirements for these specific full-nutrition formula foods. The regulator published the guidance as a set of three principles.
China Market Regulator Issues Clinical Trial Guidance for Three Medical Food Categories
The significance lies in the regulator moving from broad categories to named clinical indications, which raises the evidence bar for full-nutrition formulas and shifts differentiation toward trial design rather than formulation alone. It affects medical food makers, contract research organisations and trial sites positioned in these therapeutic areas. Whether the guidance becomes a de facto template for further indications is the open question.
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