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Parents, please take note regarding your baby's food safety!
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Release time:2024-08-14
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The new edition of the “National Food Safety Standard: Food Additive Usage Standard” (GB 2760-2024) will take effect on February 8, 2025, superseding the 2014 edition that has been in use for a decade. This means all food manufacturers will be required to strictly adhere to the new standard when using food additives.
Attention all parents regarding baby food safety!
The new “National Food Safety Standard: Food Additive Usage Standards” (GB 2760-2024) will take effect on February 8, 2025, replacing the 2014 version that has been in use for a decade. This means all food manufacturers must strictly adhere to the new standards when using food additives.
While this is welcome news for parents, the market remains a mixed bag. Despite regulatory restrictions, parents must remain vigilant when selecting snacks for their children. Let's explore the key changes in the new national food safety standards! Be sure to share this with friends who need it!
01. Revised Definition of Food Additives
· Food additives are synthetic or natural substances added to food to enhance quality, color, aroma, and taste, or for preservation, freshness retention, and processing needs. This includes food flavorings, base substances in gum-based candies, processing aids for the food industry, and nutritional fortifiers.
· In line with the 2015 Food Safety Law, nutritional fortifiers have been explicitly included in the definition of food additives.
02. Revised Specific Food Additive Types/Usage Regulations
· Deleted food additive types and their usage regulations that were found to no longer be process-essential through investigation, including:
- Amaranth Red
- Mild Yellow
- Hawthorn Color
- 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid
- Carrageenan
- Azodicarbonamide
· Usage regulations for preservatives in canned foods, glacial acetic acid in vinegar, natamycin in fruit/vegetable juices, β-carotene in distilled spirits, and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides have been removed.
03. Modified usage requirements for certain food additives
· Added cumulative usage limits for aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and methyl aspartate when used together within the same food category;
· Refined the correspondence between liquid beverage additives and their solid beverage counterparts within the beverage category;
· Revised usage regulations for sulfur dioxide, carrageenan, guar gum, dehydroacetic acid and its sodium salts;
· Recategorized certain food groups previously classified as “Other” and adjusted corresponding food additive usage provisions.
04. Revised principles for the use of food flavorings and essences
· Further clarified usage requirements for food flavorings with additional food additive functions or other food applications, such as benzoic acid, cinnamaldehyde, guarana extract, sodium diacetate, disodium succinate, tricalcium phosphate, and amino acids;
· Clarified that labels for food flavorings and food essences must comply with the “National Food Safety Standard: General Rules for Food Additive Labeling” (GB 29924-2013). Prepackaged foods containing added food flavorings or essences must be labeled according to the “National Food Safety Standard: General Rules for Prepackaged Food Labeling” (GB 7718-2011);
· Specifies that the quality specifications for food flavorings shall comply with the “National Food Safety Standard: General Rules for Food Flavorings” (GB 29938-2020) and relevant product standards for flavorings.
05. Revised and improved certain food flavor varieties
· Deleted 6 flavor varieties including Ku Ming Oil (Kumming Oil) (among which Ku Ming Oil and Fenugreek are now classified as spices, Hibiscus Roseata, Pomegranate Juice Concentrate, and Corn Cob Silk are now classified as ordinary foods, and 3-Acetyl-2,5-Dimethylthiophenol is no longer used in the industry);
· Reclassified anethole and geniposide as synthetic flavorings: Modified and/or added Chinese and English names, FEMA numbers, and codes for flavorings such as naringenin (naringenin extract).
06. Deletion of certain food processing aids
· Removed mineral oil, integrating its usage regulations with those of white oil (liquid paraffin);
· Deleted ammonium phosphate, integrating its usage regulations with those of diammonium phosphate and monohydrogen diphosphate.
07. Revised certain processing aid varieties/usage regulations
· Deleted the 1,2-dichloroethane variety and its usage regulations; removed provisions for B-cyclodextrin in pasteurized milk and sterilized milk:
· Specified the specific functions and usage scope of hydrogen peroxide when used as a processing aid.
08. Modified certain food categories
· Classified blended soy sauce (food category code 12.04.02) and blended vinegar (food category code 12.03.02) under liquid compound seasonings (food category code 12.10.03); Changed “Vinegar (Food Category 12.03)” to “Edible Vinegar (Food Category 12.03)”;
· Added the meatball food category;
· Removed the semi-sparkling wine food category;
· Revised the food category for candied fruits and preserved fruits;
· Adjusted the food category for sugar, etc.
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