After the latest sample inspection, on July 11, 2017, China CFDA issued a notification on the discovery of three batches of unqualified special dietary food, involving Aflatoxin B1 and false labeling.
An infant cereal supplementary food produced by a Xi’an company exceeded aflatoxin B1 of 0.8μg/kg, 60% higher than the required standard. Since Aflatoxin B1 is a carcinogenic toxin, it stipulates in National Food Safety Standard Mycotoxin Limit in Food that Aflatoxin B1 shall be less than 0.5μg/kg in infant cereals supplementary food.
A kind of pure baby rice imported from Austria is unqualified due to its actual sodium content being 81.7% lower than its label indicated, besides, moisture is also 21.7% higher than the standard, violating requirements in National Food Safety Standard infant Cereal Supplementary Food. Another rice cereal produced domestically also had a false label as well. Its actual sodium content is 0.69mg/100kJ, which is 60.1% lower than the indicated value (1.73 mg/100kJ).
According to National Food Safety Standard infant Cereal Supplementary Food (GB 10769-2010), sodium content shall be less than 24.0 mg/100kJ, while referring to National Food Safety Standard Labeling of Prepackaged Foods for Special Dietary Uses, it should also comply with requirement of being more than 80% of the value indicated on the label. As for exceeding moisture, it will cause shorter storage time and decreased microbial safety.
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