In January 2020, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the guiding principles of real world evidence supporting drug research & development (R&D) and evaluation (Trial) to guide the development of real world study (RWS) for drug R&D and review decision-making in the future. This guideline has important reference value for developing RWS of health food. Based on the interpretation of the core content of the guiding principles, combined with the common points of RWS and health food interventions, this paper preliminarily discusses the application of RWS to support health food regulatory decision-making so as to provide references for further promoting the application of RWS in the field of health food.
