Food Packaging Trade Barriers Abroad, The New Changes And Countermeasures

On food safety issues as the world's increasing concern

, from food packaging food safety problems caused by more and more attention around the world, but also by foreign technical trade measures, as some developed countries to increase imports food threshold, to the great food-exporting countries the risks and impacts. China is a major exporter of food processing and to enhance the new requirements on foreign food packaging, new changes and coping strategies of research and study, for the promotion of China's food export trade is of great significance.

HC food industry network Changes Abroad, food packaging safety and food quality and safety are equally important. To ensure food safety, the world is not only the quality of the food itself, made more stringent health requirements, while its packaging is also set very high standards, set strict requirements, some requirements implemented in some developed countries has become technical barriers to trade one of the means.

Food packaging includes plastic bags, paper bags, aluminum foil bag, glass, ceramic bottles, tin cans, plastic film packaging and materials within, as well as cardboard boxes, plastic buckets, drums and other packaging and materials, the packaging materials because of excessive harmful ingredients may affect food quality, damage to human health. China's food exports to major countries of the United States, Japan and the European Union, these countries import food packaging have recently issued a series of technical regulations and measures to enhance the safety of imported food packaging management.

International Organization for Standardization: August 2009, the International Organization for Standardization ISO security management system standard in the HACCP based on the development of a "food (packaging) and safety management system - on the food chain in any organization's requirements" (ISO22000). ISO22000 is a voluntary international standard, is the new food safety management system standard, clear common food safety management requirements, it is designed to ensure that the food supply chain, not the weak link, covering the whole process of the food chain, that is growing , farming, primary processing, manufacturing, distribution, has been to consumers, including food. The standard of the global food safety management system proposed a unified standard, and to promote a global enterprise with more simple, consistent way to implement HACCP.

EU : For the printing ink applied to almost all of the food packaging, but with heavy metals, residual solvents, volatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as a large number of toxic and hazardous chemicals, can migrate through the chemical pollution of food contents, including benzene residues on people great harm, easily a group of diseases that cause cancer, the EU has developed the largest food packaging printing ink transfer value, provided food packaging printing ink material in the 4 - methyl-benzophenone and benzophenone limit the total migration must be less than 0.6 mg / kg. Current international limits on the printing ink, to allow or disable the embedded material and evaluation methods have not yet established a consensus standard, China's laws and regulations are also in the vacuum.

Europe and the United States : Organic chemical raw material for bisphenol A (BPA) may cause the human heart, liver and other diseases, the United States Food and Drug Administration asked in December 31, 2009 before the risk assessment of bisphenol A, the state will gradually ban food and drink containers containing the substance. Following the United States, Canada announced a ban on food packaging and contact materials in the use of bisphenol A, the French Parliament have jointly proposed a motion to ban access to material in food packaging and the use of bisphenol A.

U.S. : Will be implemented during the year 2009 "the United States 2009 Food Security Enhancement Act" stipulates that foreign companies to U.S. food exports, including pet food production, packaging, warehousing companies must annually to the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) registration. In addition, the United States, country of origin labels mandatory requirement from 16 March, 2009 onwards, meat, beef, chicken and mutton, pork, wild and farmed fish and shellfish, perishable agricultural products (12.82 , 0.34,2.72%) (fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables), ginseng, peanuts and other pre-packaged name mandatory country of origin labeling, provides retailers and suppliers of the product record keeping requirements, violations of suppliers and retailers will be punished by a fine of up to 1000 U.S. dollars.

Japan : Japan is the world's attention to one of packaging. Japan's "Food Sanitation Law" clearly calls for food packaging can not be too fancy to be tasteless, and food packaging must be printed using special inks, alcohol-soluble ink that must be replaced by toluene solvent inks more stable, not easy to put harmful substances.

Food Packaging Trade Barriers Abroad, The New Changes And Countermeasures

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