Chinese food safety standards with international standards within two years | _ food safety news

Jinghua times dispatch (reporter Zhang) yesterday, the health planning Commission held a regular press conference, concerning food safety, working and social topics and answered questions. By the end of 2015, completed more than 1000 basic food safety standards be developed, major food safety indicators would be consistent with international practices and adapt to the diet and food industry in China's national conditions.

　　Developing thousands of national standards

National Commission for health food Division the Su Zhiyi introduced, according to the plan, list of future food safety standard system and up to more than 1000 items. Now newly enacted more than more than 400 other integration plans that included food safety standards will be more than 400, and 200-300 need a new set. By the end of 2015, over more than 1000 standards will be completed.

Su Zhiyi pointed out, the next step in food safety standards through the 2014-2015 two years of effort, China's food safety standard system framework and principles consistent with the Codex Alimentarius standards, main indicators of food security and control requirements in line with international practices and adapt to the diet and food industry in China's national conditions.

China will also develop new vegetable oil, honey, food, bottled water, flavoring and so on a number of key food safety standards.

　Online food additive available

In addition, to facilitate query and use of food safety standards, relevant departments also developed food additives standard software, will in the near future at the National Center for food safety risk assessment and Health Commission website is enabled.

Assistant to the Director of the National Center for food safety risk assessment research fellow Wang Zhutian introduced in existing standards, standards for food additives to dominate. GB2760 has more than 2000 indicators of various food additives, as well as many food categories, and ordinary people is very inconvenient to use. The software such as "acid", it will immediately inform the benzoic acid can be used in which food, using multiple mass. For example, enter the "sauce" was immediately able to detect which allows the use of food additives in soy sauce, which is very convenient to public inquiries.

　Hot response

"Oxygen-enriched water" strict in oxygen use

In recent times, "oxygen-enriched water" has become a buzzword in the industry. Many brands in the publicity "oxygen-rich water," said the powerful. Some experts pointed out that "oxygen-enriched water" have no real effect, some experts think is the enterprise, arrested for false advertising.

Wang Zhutian pointed out that on the oxygen-enriched water, from a legal point, former Ministry of health agreed to as ordinary food management, add oxygen to food, but it's quality specifications and purity of oxygen and have very strict defined.

In 2007, the former Ministry of health of Zhejiang Provincial Health Department on the use of oxygen to develop a new drinking water approval request for instructions on product related issues pointed out that oxygenated drinking water management as a common food should meet the following conditions: the use of oxygen shall meet the requirement for medical oxygen, oxygen purity not less than 99%, made of oxygen content in drinking water should not exceed 150mg/L.

Expanded food to disable any aluminum-containing additives

A few days ago, 5 departments such as national health planning Commission issued a notice requirement, effective July 1, disable the 3 kinds of aluminum-containing food additives, such as steamed buns, steamed sponge cake flour products should not be used in aluminium-containing leavening agents such as alum, will no longer allow the use any of aluminium in puffed food additives.

In response, Wang Zhutian explained that is not generally July 1 removed the aluminum-containing additives, but the use of aluminum-containing food additives in food, before the biggest adjustment is to use aluminum-containing additives in the products down to a can only be used in certain foods, such as fried foods, like fried. Adjusted estimate intake of aluminum-containing additives, basically drop by about half.

(Original title: China's food safety standards with international standards within two years)

01:59 on June 12, 2014 Beijing times