Food additives containing aluminum will be restricted and forbidden in China from 1 July 2014

時間(Date) : 2014-05-26 來源(Source) : CIRS 作者(Author) : CIRS

14 May 2014, The National Health and Family Planning Commission of People’s Republic of China (formerly the Ministry of Health) and other four Administrative bodies have jointly published a Notice (NHFPC Notice number 8 of 2014) to restrict and forbid the usages of food additives containing aluminum in China.

This Notice will be implemented on 1 July 2014. Any products containing the following food additives, which have been produced before 1 July 2014, could be sold on the market until the end of their shelf life. Although the Notice did not indicate what the deadline for imported food is, we can expect that the food products containing these additives can be sold on the market before their shelf life provided that they were imported into China before 1 July 2014.

Highlights

1. Sodium aluminium phosphate-acidic, sodium aluminosilicate and starch aluminum octenylsuccinate are forbidden to be produced, sold or used as food additives after 1 July 2014.

INS No.	Chinese Name	English Name	Function
541i	酸性磷酸鋁鈉	sodium aluminium phosphate-acidic	Bulking Agent
554	硅鋁酸鈉	sodium aluminosilicate	Anticaking Agent
/	辛烯基琥珀酸鋁淀粉	starch aluminum octenylsuccinate	Thickener, Anticaking Agent, Emulsifier

2. The usage scopes and allowed dosages of aluminium potassium sulfate and aluminium ammonium sulfate in wheat flour and its product are significantly narrower than before.

Before Modification (Category Number/ Food Name)	After Modification (Category Number/ Food Name)
04.04 Bean product	04.04 Bean product
06.03.01.01 General wheat flour	Forbidden
06.03.01.02 Appropriative wheat flour (e.g. self-leavening flour, flour for dumplings)	Forbidden
06.03.02.01 Fresh pastas and noodles and similar products (e.g. un-boiled noodles, and “skins” or crusts for dumplings, wontons, steamed pork dumplings)	Forbidden
06.03.02.02 Dried pastas and noodles and similar products	Forbidden
06.03.02.03 Fermented pastas and similar products	Forbidden
06.03.02.04 Batters (e.g., for breading or batters for fish or poultry)	06.03.02.04 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry)
06.03.02.05 Fried flour products	06.03.02.05 Fried flour products
06.05.02.02 Shrimp-flavored starch flakes	06.05.02.02 Shrimp-flavored starch flakes
07.0 Bakery food	07.0 Bakery food
09.0 Fish and fishery products, including mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms	09.0 Fish and fishery products, including mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms
16.06 Puffed food	Forbidden

3. Any food additives containing aluminum are forbidden to be added to puffed food.

References

http://www.nhfpc.gov.cn/sps/s7891/201405/800ad83e215b4391a982bb9cb69fe49e.shtml

More info about food additive regulations in China, please click here.

Contact

Ms. Cathy Yu, Senior Consultant, Food Safety Regulation, CIRS China
11F Dongguan Building, 288 Qiuyi Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, China, 310020
Tel : +86 571 8720 6538 | Fax : +86 571 8720 6533
Email: cathy.yu@cirs-group.com

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