1.  The applicant is required to have acomplete production process, otherwise, it is a sub-packaging behavior, which does notmeet the requirements of applicants for infant formula registration.

2.  7 Situations of registration rejection:  

a. The applicant does not have the R&D capability, production capacity or inspection capability that is corresponding to the applied infant formula;

b. The application materials for registration do not support the scientific, safety of the product or with insufficient basis; the content of the application materials is contradictory, untrue, doesnot comply with the laws and regulations and the national food safety standards; the supplementary materials are not submitted within the deadline orthe supplementary material submitted does not meet the requirements;

c. The applicant cannot confirm the on-site inspection within the deadline, refuses or does not cooperate with the on-site verification; the on-site verification indicates that the application materials are incorrect, inconsistent, cannot be traced back or with major defects; the rectification is not completed on time;

d. The applicant refuses or does not cooperate with the sampling test; the product inspection is unqualified; the test result demonstrates that the measurement method is unscientific and cannotbe reproduced;

e. There is no significant difference in product formulation between the formula applied for registration and the formula of the same stage of the same enterprise;

f. The applicant that is listed in the List of Enterprises with Serious Illegal and Dishonest Acts;

g. Other situations

3. Refine the prohibition requirements on labels and instructions and clarify the source of raw milk. Using of the image of infants and women,the term of ‘human breast milk’ or similar terms are prohibited.

4. Clarify the requirement of materials for formulation alteration, including the demonstration report of formulation alteration (which is not mentioned in current version).

1. Applicants listed in the List of Enterprises with Serious Illegal and Dishonest Acts shall be rejected for registration;  

2. Further regulate the action of copying, reselling, leasing, lending, and transferring infant formula registration certificates and increase the penalty to 10,000 RMB-30,000 RMB