About JHFC
The Association for Japan Health Food Certified (JHFC) is a private certification body that supports transparency of health-food information by verifying product information, manufacturing & quality-management records, labeling and related documents.
JHFC certification is a private, document-based certification. It does not guarantee pharmaceutical efficacy or the treatment/prevention of any disease.
Certification
We verify product information, manufacturing control, labeling and test documents, and assign a certification number to products meeting the checkpoints.
Resources
Guidelines, application forms, checklists and industry whitepapers are made available for download.
News
Updates on the certification scheme, document releases and related information.
News
- 2026-05Updated application documents and the labeling check sheet
- 2026-03Organized our policy on appropriate health-food information
- 2026-01Published industry papers on quality transparency by ingredient
- 2025-11Released a guide on reading third-party test reports
- 2025-09Organized checkpoints for ingredient-amount labeling
- 2025-07Updated the certification mark usage rules
- 2025-05Organized the scope of member document-review services
- 2025-03Published the application flow and checkpoints
- 2025-01Published the association profile and corporate information
- 2024-11Clarified the boundary between food and drug expressions
- 2024-09Published verification points for ingredients, allergens and storage
- 2024-07Launched the website