Notifications for China (342 notifications)

This standard specifies the basic requirements of places, facilities, equipment, personnel and hygiene control management standards for raw material procurement, classification, repair, cleaning, cooling, inspection, packaging, storage and transportation, product traceability and recall in the processing of edible livestock and poultry by-products. This standard is applicable to the processing of edible livestock and poultry by-products, and also includes the collection of livestock and poultry blood.

This standard is a good manufacturing practice which applies to the production enterprises of food for special medical purpose.

This Standard applies to food contact plastic materials and articles, including thermoplastic elastomer materials and articles without vulcanization. This standard also applies to starch-based plastic materials and articles used for food contact. This standard specifies the terms and definitions, basic requirements, technical requirements (including raw material requirements, sensory requirements, physical and chemical indicators, etc.) and labeling requirements of plastic materials and articles for food contact.

This standard specifies the scope, terms and definitions, basic requirements, raw material requirements, sensory requirements, physical and chemical indicators, other technical requirements, migration tests and labeling requirements for rubber materials and products intended to come into contact with food.

This standard specified the definition, classification, safety requirements of raw substances, organoleptic properties, hygienic indexes, migration test and labels of adhesive used in food contact materials and articles.

The standard defines the basic requirements and regulation principles on prepared meat products producing, in the fields of raw material purchasing, processing, packaging, storage and transportation, etc. concerning processing area, facilities and equipment and workers. This standard is applicable to the production of prepared meat products.

This standard stipulates maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the residues of 41 veterinary drugs, including altrenogest, etc. in animal derived foods.

This standard applies to food nutritional fortifier calcium citrate formed by reaction of citric acid with calcium carbonate or calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide. This standard specifies the technical requirements and testing methods of food nutritional fortifier calcium citrate.

This standard applies to the food nutritional fortifier Iron Electrolytic which is produced by electrolysis form pure iron raw material. It specifies the technical requirements and detection methods for food nutritional fortifier Iron Electrolytic.

This standard applies to Arachidonic acid (ARA) derived from Mortierella alpina, and manufactured by biofermentation method.

This standard is applicable to food nutritional fortifier ammonium molybdate, which is prepared with molybdenum concentrate by roasting, ammonia leaching and refining.

This standard applies to food nutritional fortifier copper citrate obtained from reaction and crystallization of citrate acid (or citrate salt) and copper carbonate (copper sulfate or other copper salt) as raw materials in a certain proportion. It specifies the technical requirements and testing methods for copper citrate.

This standard is applicable to food nutritional fortifier yeast β-glucan, which is made from Saccharomyces cerevisiae by cell wall breaking extraction, acid and alkali treatment, purification and drying, and with high concentration of-1,3/-1,6-glucan as main material.

This standard applies to Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) derived from Schizochytrium spUlkenia amoeboida or Crypthecodinium Cohnii, and manufactured by biofermentation method.

Based on document G/SPS/N/CHN/1165 notified on 14 September 2020, the scope of application of the standard has been revised; warning words has been added; additional supplementary information has been added; prepackaged food exempted from mandatory nutrition labelling has been modified.

The standard stipulates the sensory, content and other physical and chemical index requirements and corresponding inspection methods of food nutritional fortifier all-trans retinol prepared by chemical synthesis with β-ionone as the main raw material.

This standard applies to food nutritional fortifier Uridine-5'-monophosphoric acid which is produced by enzymatic cleavage of yeast ribonucleic acid (RNA) or by enzymatic reaction with nucleoside as raw material.

This notification is based on notification G/SPS/N/CHN/1223 dated 16 July 2021 and is amended as follows:With respect to "6. Description of content", make the following explanation:The notification shall take effect on 1 November 2021.Seeds harvested before 1 November 2021 may be exempted from field inspection requirements, and the competent phytosanitary authorities of the exporting country shall indicate in the additional declaration of the Phytosanitary Certificate that "The seeds were harvested before 1 November 2021 and are free from ToBRFV as tested by RT-PCR or real-time RT-PCR before exporting."An article is added:Requirements for Re-export. According to ISPM12 (Guidelines for Phytosanitary Certificates), for Solanum lycopersicum L. seeds or Capsicum spp. seeds to be re-exported to China, the original or certified copy of the Phytosanitary Certificate issued by the competent phytosanitary authority of the country of origin with the corresponding additional declaration shall be attached, in the meantime:(i) if the seeds are not infested or contaminated by pests, the competent phytosanitary authority of the re-exporting country shall issue a phytosanitary certificate for re-export; or(ii) if the seeds are infested or contaminated by any pest, pre-export testing shall be carried out  and the competent phytosanitary authority of the re-exporting country shall issue a Phytosanitary Certificate with indicating in the additional declaration that "The seeds are free from ToBRFV as tested by RT-PCR or real-time RT-PCR before exporting."

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) is a quarantine pest of entry plants of China. According to the Law of the People's Republic of China on Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine and relevant regulations of its implementation regulations, Solanum lycopersicum L. and Capsicum spp. seeds exported to China from countries or regions where ToBRFV occurs should meet the following requirements: 1. The Solanum lycopersicum L. and Capsicum spp. seeds exported to China come from ToBRFV pest free areas established according to ISPM No. 4 and officially recognized. The National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) of the exporting country shall indicate in the attached statement of the phytosanitary certificate of goods that "this batch of XX seeds comes from ToBRFV pest free area"; Or 2. According to the official investigation, ToBRFV did not occur in the planting areas and in the growing period of Solanum lycopersicum L. and Capsicum spp. seeds exported to China. For bulk goods, at least 3,000 representative Solanum lycopersicum L. or Capsicum spp. seed samples (at least 10% for small bulk goods) were taken before export, and the seeds were detected by RT-PCR or real-time fluorescence RT-PCR for ToBRFV, and the results showed that they did not carry ToBRFV; In the additional statement of the phytosanitary certificate, it shall be stated that "the official investigation on ToBRFV has been conducted during the growing period, and ToBRFV has not occurred in the planting area. Before export, the seeds were detected by RT-PCR or real-time fluorescence RT-PCR and the results showed that they did not carry ToBRFV".

The definition, scope of application and related technical requirements of tea are stipulated in this standard.