On February 26, the State Administration of Market Supervision announced the revised "Catalogue of Food Production Licenses". From March 1, 2020, the "Food Production License Variety List" in the "Food Production License" will follow the newly revised "Catalogue of Food Production Licenses". The new "Catalogue of Food Production Licenses" upholds an inclusive and prudent attitude, encourages the development of new food categories, and effectively integrates with the current effective standards and policies. To facilitate everyone to better understand the new license catalogue, Foodmate analyze the changes in food categories, changes in details, and specific implementation details:

1. Adjust the categories of soy sauce and vinegar to be consistent with the newly released standards

In order to adapt to the issuance of the new version of the "National Food Safety Standard, Vinegar" GB 2719-2018 and the "National Food Safety Standard, Soy Sauce" GB 2717-2018, the licensing catalogue has been synchronized and adjusted to achieve consistency.

2. Adjusted multiple detailed classifications to make the classification more reasonable

For example, the nutritionally fortified wheat flour was adjusted from general to special; the original 1402 side-selling tea (Huazhuan Tea, Heizhuan Tea, Fuzhuan Tea, Kangzhuan Tea, Tuocha, Tight Tea, Jinjian Tea, Rice Brick Tea, Qingzhuan Tea, etc.) was deleted and the category is adjusted to the tightly pressed tea category. The list of raw aquatic products is adjusted from drunk shrimp, drunk mud snails, drunk cockles, crab sauce (paste), sashimi, raw snail slices, jellyfish shreds, and others to pickled raw aquatic products and non-preserved raw aquatic products.

3. Added new categories and deleted (added) multiple details

For example, the category of frozen aquatic products is added, the category details include frozen prepared products, frozen slurry products, frozen boiled products, frozen fried products, frozen barbecued products, and others. The specific details of smoked barbecue meat products, fried meat products, and other cooked meat products have been deleted. Special medical formula foods are newly added non-full nutritional formula foods. Specific nutritional formula foods have added food protein allergy full nutritional formula foods, refractory epilepsy full nutritional formula foods, and other categories. The list of edible oil and fat products will be added to others, and enterprises will be encouraged to develop new products to adapt to changes in social catering business conditions and new demands.

4. Salt is included in the food production license for management

Effective integration with the newly released "Food Production License Management Measures":

Article 7: The market supervision and management departments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government may determine the food production license management authority of the market supervision and management departments at the city and county level based on the food category and food safety risk status.

The production license of health foods, formula foods for special medical purposes, formula foods for infants and young children, supplementary foods for infants and young children, salt and other foods shall be the responsibility of the market supervision and management departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

5. For the first time, the health food catalog is managed according to the management idea of the general food catalog

The product categories of health food have been refined, and the "Detailed Rules for Examination of Health Food Production Licensing” achieved coordination and unity.

6. The details of dairy products have changed

High-temperature sterilized milk is added to the liquid milk, and it is clear that the new "National Food Safety Standard, High-temperature Sterilized Milk" can be approved according to the filed enterprise standards before the release. Remove colostrum powder from milk powder. Concentrated milk is added to other dairy products.

Since the release of the "Rules for the Review of Dairy Products Production License (2017 Draft for Review)", there has been no new progress. The newly released classification catalog will arouse industry attention.

7. Clarify the criteria for permit classification and dynamic changes in its details

It is mentioned in Note 2 of the new "Category of Food Production License Classification":

If the newly revised review rules are inconsistent with the classifications in the catalog, the newly published review rules shall prevail.

8. Clarify the detailed filling requirements for new food ingredients when applying for SC

It is mentioned in Note 3 of the newly released "Category of Food Production License Classification".

For applications for the production of new food raw materials in accordance with other food categories, their label names shall be consistent with the names of new food raw materials that can be used in ordinary foods announced by the National Health Commission.

After the implementation of the announcement, enterprises can consult with Foodmate at any time if they encounter problems in the process of handling food production licenses. Foodmate will provide continuous support for the smooth renewal of certificates.

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