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    Technical restrictions on the import of agricultural products and food increased in the US and Europe

    • Last Update: 2001-08-30
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Introduction: it is understood from relevant aspects that, with the increasingly fierce competition in the international market, the United States and the European Union put forward higher and higher requirements for the import of agricultural products and food, which makes China's agricultural products and food exports face more technical restrictions The food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA) has promulgated "safety and health procedures for processing and importing aquatic products", which stipulates that all aquatic products manufacturing and processing enterprises entering the United States must implement the HACCP system and register with the official agencies of the United States The U.S Department of agriculture's food safety and inspection agency requires all processing enterprises of meat and poultry products (including imported meat and poultry products) sold on the market to implement the HACCP system In April 1998, the FDA issued the food safety and health guidelines to minimize the risk of bacterial contamination of fresh fruits and vegetables, which requires the implementation of HACCP system in the production process of fruits and vegetables juice, and the implementation of labeling plan in fruit juice and vegetable juice products; the inspection scope of concentrated fruit juice has been expanding, with 26 inspection items For the imported food labeled "healthy" and fresh and refrigerated food, the United States requires that the content of low fat and saturated fat be met It stipulates that the content of sodium in every 50 grams of food must be reduced to less than 360 mg, the content of cholesterol shall not be more than 60 mg, and the content of vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, protein and cellulose in fresh fruits and vegetables must be 10% And so on As for the requirements of food label, FDA has specified them in detail, among which the mandatory requirements mainly include the product characteristics (product general or common name), net content, name or address of manufacturer, packager or seller on the food label If there are more than two components with common or common names, they shall be listed in the order of decreasing proportion The European Union stipulates that the processing and production enterprises of imported aquatic products and animal products must be registered in the European Union; for imported peanuts and their products, it stipulates that the aflatoxin limit shall be uniformly reduced from 20 × 10 (the negative 9th power) and 10 × 10 (the negative 9th power) to 4 × 10 (the negative 9th power), and the batch size shall be 4-7 tons Adopt "automatic alarm brake", that is, any EU member country finds that aflatoxin in imported peanut exceeds the standard, and other member countries automatically close the peanut market of the exporter accordingly; for honey products, EU requires to detect streptomycin residues from the end of 1997, among which the limit extracted by Germany and UK is 10 × 10 (negative 9 times); for imported animal products, UK requires health and elimination The requirements of the poison certificate mainly include the following contents: 1 The certificate shall be signed by the official authorized veterinarian of the exporting country; 2 It must be the product processed in the slaughterhouse by the live poultry; 3 The epidemic disease cannot be detected before and after the slaughter; 4 The bristle disinfection must be boiled in 100 ℃ water for more than 10 hours (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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