• Food
• Safety
• China
• Quick
• Overview
• Authority
• Issue
• Alert
• News
• Foodmate

Here is the "Quick Overview Series" from Foodmate, which will present most valuable informations related to food industry in China for you. There are more "Quick Overviews" underway, please stay tuned.

• Food
• Additives
• Management
• China
• Foodmate

Food additives play a crucial role in ensuring food safety, enhancing food quality, and extending shelf life. In China, the management and usage of food additives are strictly regulated to protect the health of consumers and maintain the integrity of the

• Foods
• Cosmetic
• Unallowed
• GACC
• China
• Foodmate

On Jul 28, the General Administration of Customsof China (GACC)released information on food and cosmetics that were not allowed to enter the country in Jun2023. In Jun 2023, the GACCdetected 232 batches of unqualified food and cosmetics items such as safe

• Food
• Co-edition
• Label
• Design
• Export
• Southeast
• Asia
• Market
• Foodmate

Based on years of experience in label review and research findings on imported food regulations in the Southeast Asian markets, Foodmate believes that the main considerations for label co-edition design include language, labeling items, specific labeling

• Food
• Additives
• New
• Varieties
• Application

To facilitate the understanding of the application and progress of new varieties of food additives for food industry, Foodmate has conducted a summary of the overall application status of new varieties of food additives in the first half of 2023.

• Health
• Food
• China
• Registration
• Filling
• Foodmate
• GB16740
• SAMR
• Dietary
• Supplement

According to the National food safetystandardof Health foods (GB 16740), health foods are defined as the food which claims to have specific healthcare functions or to be a supplement of vitamins and minerals for the human body. Health food is designed for

• Comparison
• Irradiation
• Requirements
• Pet
• Food
• China
• US
• Foodmate

Let's take a look at the definition ofirradiation, ionizingirradiation and non-ionizing irradiation.Irradiation refers to the physical phenomenon of transferring energy in space in the form of electromagnetic waves or high-speed particles. Usually ac

• ​Food
• Cosmetic
• Refused
• Enter
• China
• Export
• Import
• Foodmate

In May 2023, the GACC detected 122 batches of unqualified food and cosmetics items such as safety and hygiene items in the port supervision link and were not allowed to enter the country. Among them, there are 118 batches of food and 4 batches of cosmetic

• Food
• Registration
• Philippines
• Foodmate

Foodmate takes this as the theme to introduce the registration requirements and management status of food (imported food) in the Philippines.

• Aspartame
• Carcinogenicity
• JECFA
• Food
• Additive
• Foodmate

On June 29th, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization, released the latest research findings on aspartame. IARC assessed the potential carcinogenic effects of aspartame, while the Joint FAO/WHO Exp