On 17 February 2016, CFDA released the Health Food Raw Materials Directory (the first batch) –Nutrition Supplement Raw Materials Directory. In order to further regulate the management of health food filing and in accordance with requirements of Measures for the Management of Health Food Registration and Filing, CFDA organized to draft the Name List of Excipients available for Health Food Filing (the first batch) (Chinese version download) and the Name List of Health Food Filing Excipients Need Further Argument (Chinese version download). The two documents cover the technical requirements for health food excipients.