SPS Notification: National Food Safety Standard: Food additive Propylene glycol alginate G/SPS/N/CHN/1020

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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 Propylene glycol alginate

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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 Propylene glycol alginate  Language(s): Chinese  Number of pages: 7

http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/CHN/15_4642_00_x.pdf

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Description of content: This standard applies to the food additive Propylene glycol alginate, which uses alginic acid as raw material and is obtained through esterification. It stipulates the technical requirements and test methods for Propylene glycol alginate.

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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) Prepared at the 49^th JECFA (1997), published in FNP52 (1997)

[ ]            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: This standard revised based on requirements in Specifications and Standards for Food Additives in Japan (8^th version). The differences are as shown below:

Items                                                                  JECFA                                   National Food Safety

                                                                Propylene glycol                       Standard of the P.R.C. Food

                                                                          alginate                                Additive Propylene glycol

                                                                                                                                        alginate

Esterification value, % ≥                                    -                                                          40.0

Insoluble ash, % ≤                                              -                                                             1.0

Loss on drying, % ≤                                         20.0                                                       20.0

Arsenic, mg/kg ≤                                                 3                                                             2

Lead, mg/kg ≤                                                      5                                                             5

Assay (yields, on the dried                          16～20                                                        -

basis, carbon dioxide CO2), %

Total propylene glycol, %                            15～45                                                        -

Free propylene glycol, % ≤                              15                                                            -

Microbiological           Total plate                 5,000                                                          -

criteria                          count, cfu/g ≤ 

                                       Yeasts and                 500                                                           -

                                       moulds

                                       Coliforms          Test negative                                                   -

                                       Salmonella       Test negative                                                   -

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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: