What does the business scope of medical herbal therapy preparations include?

At present, the core of the business scope of domestically compliant medical herbal therapy preparations is to match the registration attributes of the corresponding products. To put it bluntly, it means that the products you sell are approved by the qualifications, and your business scope must have corresponding categories. There is no universal "medical herbal preparations" such a separate business scope category.

Two years ago, I helped a Chinese medicine clinic near my home to expand its business scope. At that time, they wanted to put on the shelves a batch of mugwort patches with acupoint physiotherapy and herbal sprays for oral ulcer care. At first, they thought they could just add daily necessities for sale, so they went to the Industry and Commerce and Food and Drug Administration. Only then did I understand: If you are selling herbal preparations registered as Class I/II medical devices, such as the physiotherapy patches and herbal antibacterial creams used for wound repair just mentioned, the business scope must have "Sales of Class I medical devices and Sales of Class II medical devices".”； If you sell medical herbal preparations with a national drug approval trademark, such as compound herbal injections for clinical use and oral herbal conditioning preparations prescribed by a doctor, you must also have an additional "drug retail/wholesale" qualification, and you must have a licensed pharmacist stationed in order to operate in compliance.

Nowadays, the boundaries are relatively blurred among cosmetics and anti-aging products under the banner of "medical herbal therapy". The industry has not yet completely unified its approach. For example, some time ago I came across a daily chemical store in Guangzhou that sold a makeup-branded product labeled "Medical Soothing Herbal Mask." It was reported that it was operating outside of its scope. The local city supervisor determined that the product was promoted as "medical" and was classified as a medical-related product. The store only has the qualification to sell cosmetics and does not have the authority to operate a medical brand, and fined it more than 8,000 yuan. ； However, some colleagues from other places said that if cosmetics brand products only add herbal ingredients, do not clearly promote medical effects, and do not carry a "medical" label, they can be sold within the scope of ordinary cosmetics business without adding additional items. Law enforcement standards do vary from place to place.

There are also herbal disinfectant gels under the Xiao brand and medical-grade herbal antibacterial hand sanitizers. If it is clearly for medical use, the business scope must also add "disinfectant supplies sales". The supermarket in front of our community encountered this trap two years ago. The boss had obtained the general daily necessities business qualification and sold the herbal no-wash gel under the Xiao brand. After being complained, he was fined 2,000. At that time, he wondered why he couldn't sell it because it was hand sanitizer. In fact, he did not understand the correspondence between product attributes and business scope.

If you are planning to increase the scope of business in this category, don’t just check the answer online. It is best to type out the registration certificates for all the products you plan to sell and go directly to the market supervision window of the local government service center to ask. It is most safe to add items according to the requirements given by others, so as to avoid pitfalls during later operations.