China National Standard: China’s First National Standard for Fruit and Vegetable Drinks

China’s first national standard for fruit and vegetable drinks, namely GB/T 31121-2014 Fruit & Vegetable juices and fruit & vegetable beverage, has been released earlier this month. The non-compulsory standard will become effective on 1 June 2015.This standard was issued in SAC’s Announcement No. 21 of 2014 together with 258 new national standards, which also includes GB/T 31114-2014 Frozen drinks-Ice cream, GB/T 31119-2014 Frozen drinks-Ice milk, GB/T 31120-2014 Candy terminology, GB/T 31122-2014 Liquid packaging base card board and GB/T 31123-2014 Paperboard for solid food packaging.

The full texts of the standards above mentioned will be available soon in ChemLinked Database.