China Drafts Technical Guidance on Altering Registered Infant Formula

To date (July 27th 2018) China has granted approval to 152 infant formula manufacturers and 1156 formulae in total, including 47 overseas producers and their 204 formulae. Since the implementation of China’s infant formula registration requirements, remarkable progress has been made to improve product quality, safety and increase the efficiency of administrative oversight in this sector. After promulgation and implementation of the infant formula registration standard, several other changes to ingredient specific standards have also been released which have a major impact on market dynamics, exemplified by China’s new Lactoferrin standard, raw goat milk and goat whey requirements etc. precipitating the need for many manufacturers to change their registered infant formula.