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| Vol. 22 |
| 2019-08-30 |
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CFSA | Solicited Public Opinions on 8 Novel Food Additives (August 9, 2019) |
| On August 9, 2019, China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) solicited public opinions on 8 novel food additives, including 5 enzyme preparations for food industry, 1 food additive with expanded usage, 1 processing aid for food industry with expanded usage and 1 Food fortifier with expanded usage. |
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SAMR | Guide to Labelling Warnings for Health Foods |
| On August 20, 2019, in order to make consumers more easily to distinguish health foods from common foods and medicines, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the announcement on Guide to Labelling Warnings for Health Foods, which will be implemented on January 1, 2020. |
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Case Study | Court Sentenced Ten Times Compensation for Illegal Addition of American Ginseng to Common Food |
| The food purchased by Wu belonged to common food, but the ingredients labelled in the ingredient list included items are only allowed to be used in health food. |
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Case Study | A RMB 150,000 fine to illegal labelling ‘Non-GMO’ |
| A company's sunflower seeds oil was labelled with ‘Non-GMO’ and other related propaganda terms in the outer package. At present, there has no genetically modified sunflower seeds and their products on the market. Therefore, it was illegal to claim ‘non-GMO’ for sunflower seeds oil. |
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Weekly Review of Food Standards and Regulations (August 01-16) |
| 1. Notice of the Office of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration on Soliciting Public Opinions on the National Standard Edible Blended Oil. 2. Notice of the office of the National Health Commission on National Food Safety Standards Project Plan in 2019. 3. China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment Solicited Public Opinions on 8 Novel Food Additives... |
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