New regulations in October: Infant formula milk powder can no longer be called ＂imported

Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation revised and issued the "Infant and Young Children Formula Milk Powder Product Formula Registration Management Measures" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), which will be effective from October 1, 2023.

Infant and young children formula milk powder is a special food related to the happiness of hundreds of millions of families and the future of the country and the nation. The revised "Measures" have 6 chapters and 52 articles, which stipulate the application and registration procedures, labels and instructions, supervision and management, legal responsibilities, etc. for enterprises that plan to produce, sell and import infant formula milk powder in China. For example: Disguised packaging is clearly prohibited and there are 8 situations in which registration is not allowed. ”

"First, it is prohibited to repackage in disguised form, even if the use already meets the nutritional content requirements of the national infant formula food safety standards The compound ingredients used as raw materials apply for formula registration; secondly, the application materials are fraudulent and untrue; thirdly, the applicant does not have the research and development capabilities, production capabilities or inspection capabilities that are suitable for the product formula applied for registration; fourthly, the applicant Failure to submit supplementary and corrective materials within the prescribed time limit, or the submitted supplementary and corrective materials do not meet the requirements; fifth, if the conclusion of the on-site verification report or the conclusion of the inspection report is that the registration requirements are not met, registration will not be granted if the requirements are not met. " Zhou Shiping said.

The revised "Measures" further refines theprohibitions on labels and instructions Sex requirements are added, and vague information such as "imported milk source", "originating from foreign pastures", "ecological pasture", "imported raw materials", "original ecological milk source" and "non-polluting milk source" are not allowed to be used; infants and infants are not allowed to be used. Images of women, "human-emulsified", "breast-emulsified" or similar terminology; other content that is inconsistent with laws, regulations, rules and national food safety standards shall not be used, and situations that express or imply health care effects, etc. are not allowed. /p>

In addition, the new version of the "Measures" has increased penalties for illegal activities that cause harmful consequences