The
AQSIQ has made great changes in the import policy of feed and feed additives,
with a separate list formulated especially for feed additives and additive
premix. This represents another step in the stricter regulation of China's food
and feed market.
The
Chinese government is paying close attention to food safety in the country and,
as a result, keeps constantly upgrading the policies for food and feed
regulation, including import conditions. Therefore, the General Administration
of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of
China (AQSIQ) has established a supervision system which includes the whole
steps of companies that want to import food and feed products to China. This
indicates, that companies that are exporting food and feed related products to
China, they are in need to pay more attention to the Chinese laws and
regulations in order to know if and how they are able to export their products
to China. Some of the most important tasks for an exporting company is to check
if the product category is allowed to import to China, they have to design a
compliant Chinese label, and it is necessary to conduct pre-test according to
relevant Chinese national standard to check if the product quality can be
compliant under Chinese regulation.
The
AQSIQ issued at the beginning of March 2018, that the new version of the list
of feed and feed additives was approved for import. According to market
intelligence firm CCM, a major change has been seen in the administration of
feed additives. The statement says that the previous List of Products and
Countries or Regions of Feed and Feed Additives Approved for Import has
been effectively divided into two separate lists, each dealing with a specific
segment.
The
first list is now dealing with the countries and regions that are allowed to
export feed additives and additive premix into China. The second list deals
with the countries and regions that are allowed to export feed raw materials,
pet food, and formula feed into China.
Looking
at the changes occurring from the new regulation, it is basically the first
time in China that feed additives and additive premix have been targeted by a
separated list. It is worth mentioning, that from now on feed additives
containing no ingredients of animal and plant origin are no longer allowed to
be imported into China without approval.
What’s
more, in the new regulations, twelve countries' feed raw materials, pet food
and formula feed have been newly added on the list. As a result, 62 feed
products of 52 countries or regions were included in the List of Products
and Countries/Regions of Feed Additives and Additive Premix Approved for Import and 268 feed additive products of 30 countries or regions included in the List
of Products and Countries/Regions of Feed Raw materials, Pet Food and Formula
Feed Approved for Import.
It
is stipulated that the feed products on the list are allowed to be imported
before the overseas processing enterprises finish the registrations. Any
foreign feed raw material or feed additive enterprise planning to export their
products to China shall complete all the required access procedures and
registrations in accordance with China's laws and regulations.
How
is feed export to China regulated?
Feed
and feed additive exports into the Peoples Republic of China have to deal with
two Chinese government authorities, namely the Ministry of Agriculture and the
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Of
those, the Ministry of Agriculture is the competent registration authority of
feed and feed additive products. For the purpose of strengthening the
supervision of feed and feed additive imports and ensuring the quality and
safety of animal products, the ministry has published the Regulation on Feed and
Feed Additive Import.
The
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the
People's Republic of China is a ministerial-level department that is in charge
of national quality, metrology, entry-exit commodity inspection, entry-exit
health quarantine, entry-exit animal and plant quarantine, import-export food
safety, certification and accreditation, standardisation, as well as
administrative law enforcement.
Overseas
enterprises have to file an application in order to fulfil the import
registration with the Ministry of Agriculture and obtain an import registration
license for feed and feed additives before exporting to China for the first
time. Without an import registration license, the imported feed and feed
additives cannot be legally sold and used in China. A regular feed and feed
additive import registration license remain valid for 5 years.
About the article
The
information for this article comes from CCM, China’s leading market
intelligence provider for the fields of chemicals, agriculture, food and feed.
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