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Food

China Drafts Pesticide Maximum Residue Limits for Raw Milk

Takehome: China is to improve raw milk quality by setting more stringent pesticide maximum residue limits. On May 27, 2019, China Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs opened public feedback ...

2019-05-31

Food

SAMR Optimizing National Food Standard Framework

Takehome: Product standards will no longer contain hygiene requirements and many standards will change from mandatory standards (GB) to recommended standards (GB/T).   In a document issued by ...

2019-05-24

Food

China Opens 4 New Food Raw Materials and 5 New Food Additives to Public Feedback

Takehome: 4 new food raw materials are now undergoing public consultation which will end June 17th, 2019. On May 21st, 2019, CFSA opened 4 new food raw materials and 5 new food additives to public ...

2019-05-24

Food

Administrative Rules on the Review of Health Foods Advertisement

Takehome: Advertising of health foods and food for special medical purposes will be restricted to labels and product manuals. SAMR issued a notice detailing the first batch of fraudulent health food ...

2019-05-17

Food

China Newly Approves 21 Infant Formula Products

Takehome: On April 30, 2019, China approved the registration of 21 infant formulae and rejected 3 applications. On April 30, 2019, NMPA (National Medical Products Administration) issued a notice ...

2019-05-17

Food

Bellamy to Exploit China Infant Formula General Trade Channels through Registered

Takehome: Australian infant formula manufacturer Bellamy will attempt to cash in on infant formula general trade channels in China by authorizing another manufacturer ViPlus to use its brand name. ...

2019-04-30

Food

China GAC Unveils Imported Feed and Feed Additive Risk Level and Supervision Mechanism

Feed are stratified into 4 tiers based on the feed ingredients used, with each tier having specific compliance requirements. Feed designated level 1 is subject to the most stringent inspection and ...

2019-04-22

Food

4 New Food Additives Open for Public Feedback in China

China has opened the proposed authorization of glucuronolactone as a food additive in energy drinks to public feedback. Its approval will open China's markets to many energy drink products which use ...

2019-04-22

Disinfectant & Biocide

The Managements of Drinking Water Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in China

Early this year, MUJI announced a worldwide recall of its bottled water products after detecting excessive bromate contaminant, a disinfection by-product (DBP) generated during ozone disinfection. ...

2019-04-19

Food

China SAMR Consults on Health Food Toxicology and Strain Pathogenicity Evaluation Standards

On Apr. 4, 2019, China SAMR opened “Health Food Toxicology Evaluation Procedure Standards” and “Health Food Strain Pathogenicity Evaluation Procedure Standard” for public feedback.   Read ...

2019-04-12