On January 9th, 2017, the National Health and Family Planning Committee (NHFPC) released Announcement No.17 detailing 127 national food safety standards. This latest batch of standards contain 14 food quality standards, 19 production hygiene practice standards, 13 nutrition fortification standards, 66 physicochemical testing method standards and 15 microbiological testing method standard. The effective date of the hygiene practice standards will be on December 23rd of 2017, and the rest of the standards will all come into effect after the June 23rd of 2017.
Some significant standards are listed below, for more details; please refer to the official announcement.
- GB 2707-2016 National Food Safety Standard Fresh (Frozen) Livestock Poultry Product
- GB 31638-2016 National Food Safety Standard Casein
- GB 1903.13-2016 National Food Safety Standard Food Nutrition Fortifier L-carnitine
- GB 1903.17-2016 National Food Safety Standard Food Nutrition Fortifier Lactoferrin
- GB 5009.5-2016 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Protein in Food
- GB 5009.6-2016 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Fat in Food
- GB 5413.30-2016 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Impurities in Dairy Products
- GB 23748-2016 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Irradiated Food Screening Method GB 4789.1-2016 National Food Safety Standard General Rules of Microbiological Testing
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