Starting today, a number of national standards directly related to food quality will be formally implemented, including both ‘sports drinks’ and other product standards related to specific food products, as well as ‘Good Manufacturing Practice for Powdered Formula for Infants and Young Children Enterprises’ and other production standards related to the quality and safety management of the enterprise, and even more ‘Determination of Soybean Isoflavonoids in Health Foods by High Performance Liquid Chromatography’ and other food safety-related testing standards, as well as “Food with Plastic Self-adhesive Cling Film‘ such as packaging standards and ’plastic disposable catering utensils” such as general standards, they will be together into the family of China’s food safety norms for food safety escort.
Sports Drinks: The updated ‘Sports Drinks’ defines sports drinks as ‘beverages whose nutrients and their content can adapt to the physiological characteristics of sports or physically active people, and can replenish the body with water, electrolytes, and energy, which can be rapidly absorbed’, emphasising for the first time the rapid absorption characteristics of sports drinks by the body.
The standard has more stringent requirements on doping and other aspects, and sports drinks are strictly prohibited from adding prohibited substances as stipulated in the latest edition of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). At the same time, the new standard also cancels the product classification, the net content requirements and the appendix of ‘substances banned by the International Olympic Committee’. In terms of physical and chemical indicators, the scope of sodium and potassium content has been relaxed, and indicators such as ascorbic acid, thiamin and its derivatives, riboflavin and its derivatives, calcium and magnesium have been deleted. At the same time, refined health indicators, lead content of ≤ 0.3 mg / l; arsenic ≤ 0.2 mg / l; per millilitre of the total number of colonies contained in the sample ≤ 30,000; pathogenic bacteria shall not be detected.
Plastic disposable tableware: Previously, China has not yet disposable plastic tableware national standards, disposable plastic lunch boxes and other non-biodegradable tableware for a long time no standard to rely on, although not expressly prohibited, but always no legal status. 1 December the implementation of the national standard ‘plastic disposable tableware general technical requirements’ will completely end this status quo, long unrecognised disposable plastic lunch boxes and other non-biodegradable tableware will have a legal status. Legal status.
In addition, the standard also clearly defines the scope of disposable food and drink utensils: it refers to the utensils intended for dining or similar purposes, including disposable lunch boxes, plates, discs, knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, bowls, cups, cans, pots, straws, etc., but does not include food packaging without the intended purpose of dining or similar purposes, such as trays of fresh food, yoghurt cups, jelly cups and so on. At the same time, specific provisions are made for the hot water resistance, hot oil resistance, water leakage performance, weight bearing performance and microwave oven temperature resistance of food and drink utensils.
Food cling film: from 1 December the official implementation of the national standard ‘food plastic self-adhesive cling film’ increased the technical requirements for raw materials, for the use of resin requirements must be ‘food-grade’ raw materials. Moreover, can be used to package food cling film will be marked ‘food’ words, and will be marked ‘can not contact with greasy food’, ‘shall not be microwaved’, ‘Do not use at high temperature’ and other warning language.
Powdered infant formula: For the majority of infant formula enterprises in China, the national standard ‘Good Manufacturing Practice for Powdered Infant Formula Enterprises’, which has been implemented since 1 December, sets the ‘rules’ for how to produce safe and reliable infant formula. The standard specifies the conditions and requirements to be met by infant formula production enterprises in the process of raw material procurement, product processing, packaging and storage and transportation, the relevant personnel, buildings, facilities, equipment setup, as well as hygiene, production process, product quality and other management to ensure the provision of safe, reliable and healthy products.
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