On Aug. 12th, 2019, National Health Commission (NHC) issued its national standards revision and formulation plan [1]. Totally, there are 57 standards involved.
Earlier on May 22nd, 2019, NHC opened the draft version of 2019 national food safety standard formulation plan to public feedback [2]. At that time, 81 national standards were proposed to be formulated or revised [3].
Compared to the draft version, the standards for nutrition and special dietary food (9 items), specifications of nutritional fortification substance (15 items) are removed from the list. For example, standards aim at sports nutrition (GB 13432-2013, GB 24154-2015), FSMP (nutritionally complete formula), special food labeling, popular food additives ARA, DHA, GOS are not listed in the approval plan.
For more information about the removed part, please click here.
Details of the legislative plan are:
S/N | Proposed standard name | Revise/formulate |
Food product (2 items) | ||
1 | Milk Protein | Formulate |
2 | GB 2758-2012[4] National Food Safety Standard – Fermented Wine and Its Concoction | Revise |
Specifications of food additives (10 items) | ||
3 | GB 8821-2011[5] National Food Safety Standard – Food Additiveβ-Carotene | Revise |
4 | GB 1886.231-2016 National Food Safety Standard – Food Additive Nisin | Revise |
5 | GB 28303-2012[6] National Food Safety Standard – Food Additive Starch Sodium Octenyl Succinate | Revise |
6 | GB 26405-2011[7] National Food Safety Standard – Food Additive Lutein | Revise |
7 | Food Additive Lonicera Caerulea Red | Formulate |
8 | Food Additive Advantame | Formulate |
9 | Food Additive 5-Pentyl-3H-furan-2-one | Formulate |
10 | Food Additive (2S,5R)-N-[4-(2-Amino-2-oxoethyl) phenyl ]-5- methyl-2-(propan-2-yl)cyclohexanecarbox amide | Formulate |
11 | Food Additive 5-Methyl-2-furanmethanethiol | Formulate |
12 | Food Additive 6-Methyloctanal | Formulate |
Food related product (1 item) | ||
13 | Silicone Rubber and its Products for Food Contact Use | Formulate |
GMP (7 items) | ||
14 | GB 14881-2013[8] National Food Safety Standard –General Hygiene Practice for Food Production | Revise |
15-20 | Practice of Preventing and Reducing Patulin in Juice … | Formulate |
Test method and process (37 items) | ||
21 | General Rules for Test and Verification of Chemical Analysis Method | Formulate |
22 | General Rules for Test and Verification of Microbiological Method | Formulate |
23 | General Rules for Test and Verification of Food Contact Materials and Articles | Formulate |
24 | GB 5009.15-2014 National Food Safety Standard – Determination of Cadmium in Food | Revise |
25 | GB 5009.123-2014[9] National Food Safety Standard – Determination of Chromium in Food | Revise |
26 | GB 5009.137-2016 National Food Safety Standard – Determination of antimony in Food | Revise |
27 | GB 5009.16-2014[10] National Food Safety Standard – Determination of Tin (Tn) in Food | Revise |
28 | GB 5009.138-2017 National Food Safety Standard – Determination of Nickel in Food | Revise |
29 | GB 5009.189-2016 National Food Safety Standard – Determination of Bongkrekic Acid in Food | Revise |
30 | Determination of the Migration Level of Fluorine from FCM | Formulate |
31~33 | Determination of the Chemical Substances in FCM (GB 31604.46-2016, GB 31604.47-2016, GB 31604.30-2016) | Revise |
46 | GB 29989-2013 National Food Safety Standard – Determination of L-carnitine in Infant and Young Children Food and Dairy Food | Revise |
47 | GB 5413.18-2010 National Food Safety Standard – Determination of Vitamin C in Infant and Young Children Food and Dairy Food | Revise |
34~45 & 48~51 | Other determination methods | Formulate/revise |
52~57 | Identification of Parasite in Aquatic Animals | Formulate |