SPS Notification: National Food Safety Standard: Food additive Citric Acid G/SPS/N/CHN/1023

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Notifying Member: China

If applicable, name of local government involved:  

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Agency responsible: National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (NHFPC)

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Food additive Citric acid

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Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]        All trading partners  

[ ]          Specific regions or countries:  

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Title of the notified document: National Food Safety Standard: Food additive Citric Acid  Language(s): Chinese  Number of pages: 10

http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/CHN/15_4645_00_x.pdf

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Description of content: This standard applies to food additive Citric acid, which uses starch or sugar as raw materials, and is obtained through fermentation. It stipulates the technical requirements and test methods for Citric acid.

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Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.  

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[X]           Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text) The 79^th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) (2014)

[ ]            World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number)  

[ ]            International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  

[ ]            None

Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard? 

[ ] Yes   [X] No

If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard: In this standard, 5 indexes are added: Transmittance, Chloride, Calcium salt, Iron and total Arsenic, in order to ensure the quality of food additive citric acid product. The moisture content of Monohydrate Citric acid is revised to 7.5~9.0, which is in line with the actual situation of citric acid production enterprises in China.

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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: None  

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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

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Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

[ ]          Trade facilitating measure  

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Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 18 January 2016

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:  

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Text(s) available from: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: