China Consults on the Guideline for Organic Foods Certification Sampling

As specified in the Organic Product Certification Rules (News ^[1]; E-book ^[2]) released last year, certification agencies shall carry out the sampling inspection on products that apply for the organic certification. On June 24, 2020, SAMR disclosed six trial guidelines ^[3] for public feedback, which detailed the sampling items for the certification of six organic product categories. They are vegetables, fruits, teas, medicinal plants, dairy products, as well as livestock and poultry products. The sampling inspection mainly consists of mandatory inspection items and optional ones.

Here attached the mandatory inspection items of some key products. Any opinions shall be sent to [email protected] or [email protected] prior to July 31, 2020.

Mandatory Inspection Items to Dairy Products

Pasteurized milk, sterilized milk and modified milk

Infant formula powdered milk/Liquid infant formula

Furthermore, the guideline for dairy products also specifies the requirements of fresh milk (including cow milk, goat milk and horse milk), fermented milk, powdered milk, whey powder, casein, lactoferrin, cheese, condensed milk, butter, etc..

Mandatory Inspection Items to Livestock and Poultry Products

Chilled/frozen beef and mutton

For more sampling requirements of pork products, chicken, camel meat, etc., please email [email protected] for translation service.