﹞ Food Safety Law (FINAL)每 CH9019
o On February 28, China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee passed the first comprehensive Food Safety Law (FSL) after five years of drafting. The FSL will go into effect on June 1, 2009. This report is an UNOFFICIAL translation of this law.
Mar 17 2009 | View the Acrobat version | Download the MS Word version
﹞ Food Safety Law Report 每 CH9018
o USG Demarche
o China＊s new Food Safety Law takes an evolutionary approach in adopting a legislative framework that modernizes approaches to food safety. It makes positive steps by increasing the use of risk analysis in decision-making, public information and consumers＊ rights, process rather than end point focus, and food safety supervision. However, it retains some of the shortcomings of the current legal structure in the lack of clear or centralizing authority, insufficient oversight of small producers, and enforcement. Despite the many changes that China＊s vast size, population, production, and modernization pose, the Food Safety Law appears to be an improvement over the existing complex set of legal measures.
﹞ FSL DRAFT Implementation Measures 每 CH9040
o On February 28, China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee passed the first comprehensive Food Safety Law (FSL) after five years of drafting. The FSL will go into effect on June 1, 2009. On April 24, the State Council published the first implementation regulation related to the new law. This report is an UNOFFICIAL translation of this regulation.
May 21 2009 | View the Acrobat version | Download the MS Word version
﹞ Draft Standard for Imported Food --- CH9051 (draft)
o On May 6, the Ministry of Health published two draft regulations designed to implement certain aspects of the Food Safety Law related to imported products. These two regulations relate to imported foods that do not have Chinese safety standards and the licensing of new food related products. This GAIN report contains an UNOFFICIAL of translation of these draft regulations.
o ※Provisional Administrative Regulations on the Administrative Licensing of the Importation of Food without National Food Safety Standard (draft)§. Annex 1
o ※Provisional Administrative Measures of Administrative Licensing of New Food Related Product Varieties (draft)§. Annex 2
Jun 9 2009 | View the Acrobat version | Download the MS Word version
﹞ Final Standard for Imported Foods每 CH9065 (FINAL)
o On May 6, the Ministry of Health published two draft regulations designed to implement certain aspects of the Food Safety Law related to imported products. These two regulations relate to imported foods that do not have Chinese safety standards and the licensing of new food related products. This GAIN report contains an UNOFFICIAL of translation of these draft regulations. Announcement 72. Appendix 1 through 3 are very significant, but large, documents and can be downloaded from the same web page. The three appendices include:
∫ (1) List of imported food and the corresponding applicable standards; [UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION];
∫ (2) List of food additives that are allowed to be used in China and the corresponding applicable standards; [UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION]
∫ (3) List of food flavorings that are allowed to be used in China and the corresponding applicable standards. [UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION] [from Reg. 2760]
Standards for Inspection on Import Food and Food Additives_Beijing_China - Peoples Republic of_8-13-2009
﹞ FSL Implementation Measures 每 CH9066 (FINAL)
o On February 28, China＊s National People＊s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee passed the first comprehensive Food Safety Law (FSL) after five years of drafting. The FSL went into effect on June 1, 2009. On April 24, the State Council published the first draft implementation regulation for public comment. On July 20, the final implementing regulation incorporating public comments was published as an Order by the State Council. This report is an UNOFFICIAL translation of this regulation.
Final Food Safety Law Implementation Measures_Beijing_China - Peoples Republic of_8-14-2009
