The Chinese Academy for Food and Drug Control (hereinafter referred to as CIFDC) was founded in 1950 as the Institute for Drug and Food Control and the Institute for Biological Products Control under the Ministry of Health of the Central People's Government. In 1961, the two institutes were merged into the Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products of the Ministry of Health. In 1998, it was transferred from the Ministry of Health to a public institution directly under the State Drug Administration. In 2010, it was renamed as China Institute for Food and Drug Control with the approval of the Central Office of the Organization of the CPC Central Committee. It was attached with the brand of the Medical Device Standards Management Center of the State Food and Drug Administration, and used the name of "China National Institute for Drug Control" externally. It is a public institution directly under the State Drug Administration. In 2018, according to the official reply of the Central Office on the establishment of public institutions under the State Drug Administration, the China National Inspection Institute (the Medical Device Standards Management Center of the State Drug Administration, the China National Institute of Drug Inspection) is a public welfare class II public institution under the State Drug Administration (at the bureau level). It is the national legal institution and the highest technical arbitration institution for the quality inspection of pharmaceutical and biological products. It is responsible for the approval, registration, inspection, import inspection, supervision and inspection, safety evaluation, and issuance of biological products in many fields, such as drugs, biological products, medical devices, food, health food, cosmetics, laboratory animals, packaging materials, and is responsible for the research Distribute and manage, and carry out relevant technical research.