Announcement GACC February 2019

Category Announcement No. Brief Description of Relevant Contents
Animal and Plant Products access Announcement of the General Administration of Customs No. 30 of 2019 Registered Philippine factories are allowed to import fruits that have undergone quick freezing treatment at – 20 ℃ or below after removing the inedible peel and are transported in cold storage at – 18 ℃ or below. The varieties of frozen fruits allowed to be imported are: frozen banana (Musa sapientum), frozen pineapple (Ananas comosus ) and frozen mango ( Mangifera indica )。
Announcement No. 25 of 2019 of the Agricultural and Rural Department of the General Administration of Customs To prevent the introduction of Mongolian African swine fever into China. First, the recent outbreak of African swine fever in Bulgan, Mongolia and other 4 provinces. Secondly, the two countries have not signed an agreement on access to swine, wild boars and their products with Mongolia. The result is a ban on importing swine, wild boars and their products directly or indirectly from Mongolia.
Announcement No. 24 of 2019 of the Agricultural and Rural Department of the General Administration of Customs Lifting ban on foot-and-mouth disease in parts of Mongolia. The ban on foot-and mouth disease in parts of Zamenud City, Donggobi Province, Mongolia was lifted.
Announcement of the General Administration of Customs No. 23 of 2019 Lifting the risk warning of nodular dermatosis in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has lifted restrictions on exports to China due to bovine nodular dermatosis. Specifically, if the import inspection and quarantine is to be handled, the customs will have to issue relevant regulations.
Animal and Plant Inspection Warning [2019] No.2 The warning notice of outbreak of Koi herpes virus disease in Iraq relates to live carp cultured in fresh water (HS codes 03011993390, 03011993310, 0301193100, 03011939000, 030119010). It refers to countries in the region: Iraq and neighboring countries. The treatment method is to carry out quarantine inspection on imported or transit Cyprinidae aquatic animals for batches of Koi herpes virus disease. If unqualified, immediate return or destruction measures are taken.
Health Quarantine Announcement of the General Administration of Customs No. 21 of 2019 2018 ” International Health Regulations  2005 )” Port Public Health Core Competencies meet the standards. Customs has released a list of 273 ports in the country that have reached the hygiene standards.
Announcement of the General Administration of Customs No. 19 of 2019 Prevent yellow fever epidemic from being introduced into China. Nigeria has been listed as a yellow fever epidemic area since January 22, 2019. Transportation, containers, goods, luggage, mail and express mail from Nigeria must be subject to health quarantine. The announcement is valid for 3 months.
Certification and Accreditation Announcement of the General Administration of Market Supervision on Issuing the ” Rules for Energy Efficiency Testing and Evaluation of Heat Exchangers” [ No.2 of 2019] Define the energy efficiency test and evaluation methods and energy efficiency indexes of heat exchangers.
Administrative Approval Announcement of the General Administration of Market Supervision on Matters Related to Administrative Licensing of Special Equipment [ No.3 of 2019] The existing special equipment production license items, special equipment operators and inspection personnel qualification items have been streamlined and integrated. Reduce the systematic transaction costs of enterprises and strengthen the supervision of special equipment. The above catalogue and projects will be implemented from June 1, 2019.
National Standard Category TB/TCFDIA004-2018 ” High Quality Down Clothing” Standard will be implemented on January 1, 2019 This standard is especially aimed at high-quality eiderdown. The reason why it is so high is that it improves the assessment standards in terms of filling materials, appearance quality, etc. In the ” High Quality Down Garment” standard, the content of down fibers is used instead of the content of down fibers, thus eliminating the dishonest behavior of adding down fibers into down fibers for inferior quality. The standard also stipulates that the nominal value of lint content shall not be less than 85%. ” Increasing this threshold is based on the quality level of most down garments in the current market, because some down garments with a nominal down content of 90% have only 81% actual down content.”
Food Safety Announcement of the General Administration of Customs No. 29 of 2019 Food imported into the comprehensive bonded zone that needs to enter the territory can be assessed for conformity in the comprehensive bonded zone and released in batches. Where laboratory tests are required, they can be released after sampling on the basis of satisfying the conditions. If the laboratory tests find that the safety and health items are unqualified, the importer shall take active recall measures in accordance with the provisions of the ” Food Safety Law” and shall bear corresponding legal responsibilities.
Notice of the General Office of the General Administration of Market Supervision on Public Solicitation of Opinions of the General Administration of Market Supervision on Relevant Provisions of Health Food Label Management (Draft for Comments) The annex to the notice has the requirements of the relevant regulations on the label management of health food, which clearly states that the label content of health food shall be consistent with the corresponding content stated in the health food registration certificate or filing certificate. And the special reminder should be printed in bold type, including the following contents: health food does not have disease prevention and treatment functions. This product cannot replace drugs. The height of the font is also specified.
Notice of the General Administration of Market Supervision on Issuing the 2019 Food Safety Supervision and Sampling Plan The ” double random” sampling inspection is mainly carried out on large wholesale markets nationwide and some key food production enterprises. Including infant formula food, dairy products, meat products, beverages, alcohol, edible agricultural products and other 31 categories. For food processing products, edible oil, dairy products, beverages, wine, biscuits, fried foods and nut products, a certain number of online shopping foods and imported foods will be sampled. In combination with daily supervision, special rectification and public opinion monitoring, special spot checks will be conducted on the problems that are more prominent. Schedule: Sampling inspection shall be carried out monthly for all products of domestic and imported infant formula milk powder manufacturers registered with the formula and on sale, and sampling inspection shall be carried out quarterly for edible agricultural products, online food and imported food。

Post time: Dec-19-2019