On February 8, 2021, NHC issued a Letter of Soliciting Opinions on National Food Safety Standards including National Food Safety Standard Nutritional Fortification Substances in Foods L-Carnitine Tartrate (Draft for Comments). These standards include 9 standards for nutritional fortification substances, 3 standards for food products, 9 standards related to physical and chemical test methods and procedures, 3 standards related to microbiological test methods and procedures, and 2 standards related to production and operation specification. The deadline for soliciting is March 31, 2021.
The most concerned standards in the Letter are food nutritional fortification substances, good manufacturing practice for infants and young children formula foods, and safety evaluation procedures for food strains. The following table demonstrates the more details about these standards.
Standard | Formulate/Revise |
Nutritional Fortification Substance L-Carnitine Tartrate | Revise |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Ferrous Citrate | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Copper Carbonate | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Manganese Chloride | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Calcium Glycerophosphate | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Sodium Molybdate | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Reduce iron | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Cyanocobalamin Hydrochloride | Formulate |
Nutritional Fortification Substance Vitamin C Phosphate Magnesium | Amendment |
Edible Starch | Revise |
Limit of Fluorine in Pressed Tea and its Products | Revise |
Good Manufacturing Practice for Infants and Young Children Formula Foods | Revise |
Strain Preparation for Food Processing | Formulate |
Safety Evaluation Procedures for Food Strains | Formulate |
Hygienic Specifications for Production of Cooked Meat Products | Revise |
Determination of Synthetic Coloring in Food | Revise |
Determination of Pantothenic Acid in Food | Revise |
Determination of Sodium Glutamate in Monosodium Glutamate | Revise |
Determination of Capryl Monoglyceride in Food | Formulate |
Determination of β-Apo-8’-Carotenal in Food | Formulate |
Food Contact Materials and Products - Determination of Benzophenones and Determination of Migration | Formulate |
Food Contact Materials and Products - Determination of Lauryolactam Migration | Formulate |
Food Contact Materials and Products - Decolorization Test | Revise |
Food Contact Materials and Products - Determination of the Migration of Bisphenol F and Bisphenol S | Formulate |
Food Microbiological Test: Commercial Sterility Test | Revise |
Food Microbiological Test: Lactic Acid Bacteria Test | Revise |
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