Food products
Proposed Amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Foods
The proposed amendment seeks to:
1. Establish standards and specifications of foods for infants/young children, revise the name of food type "Other Foods for Infants/Young Children" and integrate "Cereal formulas for Infants/Young Children" into "Weaning foods for infants/Young Children";
2. Establish the concept and definition of "Senior-Friendly Foods";
3. Clarify and simply the standards and specifications of foodborne pathogens;
4. Revise the standard of heavy metal (Arsenic) in Krill oil;
5. Revise the standards of total heavy metals in foods;
6. Add two newly identified substances in the list of illegal compounds and establish their test methods - Dithiopropylcarbodenafil, Chlorosipentramine;
7. Modify and clarify some ingredients in [Annex 1], [Annex 2] and [Annex 3];
8. Modify General Test Methods according to the revisions in standards and specifications; Modify to reflect the revisions in Standards and Specifications of Food Additives and correct the errors in test methods, etc.