Food Additive Industry’s News Update & Policy Review

By CnAgri2012-12-25 10:59:51 Print 1. New Food Additives Approved         

     The Ministry of Health issued a notice on November 27, approving the production and use of five kinds of food additives, including Trisodium pyrophosphate, nitrous oxide, lactase, calcium citrate and dextranase.
The ministry also approved the expansion of the scope of application and dosage of thirteen kinds of food additive, five kinds of food-processing agents and eight kinds of nutrition enhancers.  
2. Government Collecting Suggestions on Food Criteria Drafting     

    The Ministry of Health has recently issued a notice, inviting the public to offer suggestions on the drafting of state criteria concerning the following fields: food safety standards, food additive standards, pollutant limit in food, nutrition food standards, food packaging material standards, hygienic standards in the course of food-processing, food standards measuring methods, etc.
3. Food Additives Made Known in Restaurants in Hainan   

    The Food & Drug Administration of Haikou City, Hainan, has recently launched a Food Safety Model Restaurant Street Program, requiring restaurants in the model street to register their food additives in the administration, inform customers, on indoor boards or posters, of the names, function, usage and dosage of the food additives used in the food cooked.
4. Guangxi’s Measures to Improve Food Safety   

    Guangxi Food & Drug Administration plans to take the following measures to reach state food safety requirements in three years: First, annual food spot check samples must be 7.4 per 1,000 people. Second, local governments should be informed of more than 80% of rural dinner parties each with more than fifty participants. Third, annual group food poisoning cases must be kept below 6 per 100,000 people. Fourth, food safety risk monitoring ratio should reach more than 90%. Sixth, more than 95% of food inspection samples must be up to the standards. Finally, more than 80% of the public should be informed of basic food safety knowledge.
5. Food Quality Tracking System to Be Established in Shenyang City     

    The Food & Drug Administration of Shenyang City, Liaoning, has recently required nearly one hundred food-processing enterprises and restaurants to sign a letter of commitment, an effort to push forward food quality tracking system.

    The government requires food enterprises to keep a record of raw material purchase, avoid using illegal food additives, reject meat produced from animals died of diseases, keep food samples (referring to school restaurants) and stick to state criteria in food production, distribution and sales.  

From "China Food Additives Market Monthly Report"