Parental Interest in Growing Height...A large number of general food products have been caught in a dry season, including unfair advertisements

Oct 22, 2025

Parental Interest in Growing Height...A large number of general food products have been caught in a dry season, including unfair advertisements
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Amid growing parents' interest in their children's height growth, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety inspected online posts advertising and selling food or health functional foods related to height growth, uncovered 219 violations, including 153 unfair advertising posts and 66 illegal sales posts of drugs (growth hormone drugs), and requested the competent authority to block access and dispose of administrative measures

Violations include ▲'Key Growth Nutrition Agent', 'Youth Height Growth', 'Juvenile Height Growth', etc. 122 advertisements (79.7%) ▲'Key Growth', 16 false and exaggerated advertisements (10.5%) ▲'Key Medicine' that misidentify and confuse food as pharmaceuticals, etc. 8 advertisements (5.2%) ▲'Advertising disease prevention and treatment advertisements (3.9%) ▲'Advertising devices that deceive consumers such as experience devices, etc.

In addition, 66 online posts that illegally sold, mediated, and advertised drugs such as growth hormone drugs online were discovered. There are 50 used trading platforms (75.8%), 10 general shopping malls (15.2%), and 6 open markets (9.1%).




The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety urged people to check the health functional food certification mark and functional content displayed on the product when purchasing health functional food online, as a result of this inspection found many unfair advertisements that misidentify general food as health functional food. In addition, he stressed that it is difficult to check whether drugs distributed illegally online are authorized, and there is a high concern about deterioration and contamination during distribution, and that side effects that occur after taking illegal distribution products cannot benefit from drug damage relief, so they should never be purchased or taken.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.