Summary of prohibitive provisions on food labeling (general food)

(1) Packaging design and materials:

GB4816.6-2116 National Food Safety Standard Plastic resin for food contact

GB4816.7-2116 National Food Safety Standard Plastic materials and products for food contact

GB4816.8-2116. 9685-2116 National Standard for Food Safety Standard for the Use of Additives for Food Contact Materials and Products

GB11676-2112 National Standard for Food Safety silicone Anti-sticking Coatings

GBT11114-2118 Plastic Composite Film for Packaging, Bag Dry Compound, Extrusion compound

QBT1114-2111 food packaging paper

GB23351-2119 Restrict over-packaging of commodities. Food and cosmetics

Raw paper and materials for packaging should not use recycled waste paper, recycled plastics and phenolic resin, and industrial-grade paraffin should not be used. Ink and pigment on food packaging should not be printed on the surface that comes into contact with food.

The Food and Cosmetics for Restricting Over-packaging of Commodities requires that food should not be over-packaged. For example, the packaging void ratio of primary processed grain products should not be greater than 11%, and the packaging should not exceed 3 layers. Except for the initial packaging, the total cost of outer packaging should not be greater than 21% of the food price.

(2) No trademark, name, packaging and decoration that are the same as or similar to those of well-known trademarks and well-known commodities shall be marked.

The Law of the People's Republic of China against Unfair Competition, the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China and the Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China stipulate that:

No registered trademarks of others shall be counterfeited;

it is not allowed to use well-known trademark goods, trademarks, names, packaging and decoration unique to well-known goods or similar trademarks, names, packaging and decoration on different or similar goods without authorization;

a trademark identical with or similar to other registered trademarks shall not be used on the same commodity or similar commodities;

without the consent of the trademark registrant, the registered trademark shall not be changed and the goods with the changed trademark shall be put into the market again (reverse counterfeiting);

It is not allowed to mislead the public by using marks identical with or similar to other people's registered trademarks as commodity names or commodity decorations on the same or similar commodities;

"China well-known trademark" shall not be used in commodities, commodity packages or containers, or in advertising, exhibitions and other commercial activities.

(3) The contents of the label shall not be ambiguous.

GB7718-2111 National Standard for Food Safety-General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods

GB28151-2111 National Standard for Food Safety-General Rules for Nutrition Labeling in prepackaged foods

The contents of packaging, labels and labels must be clear, eye-catching, durable and easy to identify and read.

food or its packaging should be labeled and labeled (except for food that is not required by laws and administrative regulations). It should be directly marked on the food or its packaging in the smallest sales unit, which should be clear and eye-catching, and the background and background color should be in contrast color, so that consumers can easily identify and read it.

(4) The contents marked shall not contain feudal superstition or yellow content.

The contents of packages, labels and labels must be easy to understand, accurate and scientifically based, and shall not be marked with feudal superstitions, yellow, derogatory to other foods or contrary to scientific nutrition knowledge. The content should be true, accurate, easy to understand, scientific and legal.

(5) The contents of the label shall not contain treatment of diseases or other false, misleading or deceptive contents.

General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods, General Rules for Labeling in Prepackaged foods for special dietary uses, Law of the People's Republic of China on Anti-Unfair Competition, Law of the People's Republic of China on Product Quality, Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests, Provisions on the Administration of Food Labeling and Measures for the Administration of Food Advertising, etc.:

Packaging and labeling.

Do not use directly or indirectly suggestive language, graphics or symbols to cause consumers to confuse the purchased food or a certain property of the food with another product;

For all processed foods, words such as "fresh" or "fresh" are not allowed to be added to the packaging, labels and logos or before the name, indicating that the food is fresh and natural;

the content shall be true, accurate, easy to understand, healthy and scientific, and shall not be false or misleading, and there shall be no medical terms, terms that promote curative effect, terms that are easily confused with drugs and terms that cannot be evaluated by objective indicators.

article 73 of the food safety law of the people's Republic of China stipulates: "the contents of food advertisements shall be true and lawful, and shall not contain false contents, and shall not involve the functions of disease prevention and treatment.

the production date and shelf life shall not be forged or falsely marked;

the origin of food shall not be forged;

the names and addresses of other producers shall not be forged or fraudulently used;

the production license number shall not be forged, fraudulently used or altered.

product bar codes shall not be forged or fraudulently used;

The following contents shall not be marked:

(1) It has the function of preventing and treating diseases;

(2) Non-health-care foods express or imply health-care functions;

(3) describing or introducing food in a deceptive or misleading way;

(4) the attached product description cannot prove its basis;

(5) The words or patterns do not respect the national customs and have discriminatory descriptions;

(6) marked with the national flag, national emblem or RMB;

The following terms are not allowed in food packaging:

1. Immunoregulation; 2. Regulating blood lipid; 3. Regulate blood sugar; 4. delay aging; 5. improve memory; 6. Improve eyesight; 7. Promote lead discharge; 8. Clear throat and moisten throat; 9. Adjust blood pressure; 11. improve sleep; 11. Promote lactation; 12. Anti-mutation; 13. Anti-fatigue; 14. hypoxia tolerance; 15. Radiation resistance; 16. lose weight; 17. Promote growth and development; 18. Improve osteoporosis; 19. Improve nutritional anemia; 21. It has auxiliary protective effect on chemical liver injury; 21. Beauty (removing acne/chloasma/improving skin moisture and oil); 22. Improve gastrointestinal function (regulating intestinal flora/promoting digestion/relaxing bowels/having auxiliary protective effect on gastric mucosa); 23. Suppress tumors. It shall not be labeled as having the function of preventing, relieving, treating or curing a certain disease. It is not allowed to mark "rejuvenation", "longevity", "gray hair turning black", "teeth falling and rehabilitation", "anti-cancer treatment" or other similar terms.

(6) terms such as absoluteness shall not be used.

article 7 of the advertising law of the people's Republic of China stipulates: "the contents of advertisements should be beneficial to people's physical and mental health, promote the improvement of the quality of goods and services, and protect the legitimate interests of consumers. National, superlative, best and other terms shall not be used in advertisements. " Forbidden words in advertising language:

1, national, world-class, superlative, best, first, unique, first, best, accurate, top, lowest, lowest, cheapest, maximum, latest technology, most advanced science, national products, filling domestic gaps, absolute, exclusive, first, latest.

2. Terms recommended by XXX leaders of the State, recommended by XX organs of the State, exclusively provided by XX organs of the State, and specially provided by staff members of the State;

3. Words declaring that quality does not need to be tested, such as quality inspection-free, national quality inspection-free, and sampling-free;

4. Use RMB patterns (except those approved by the central bank);

5. Traditional Chinese characters (except trademarks), using foreign characters alone, or combining Chinese and English words;

6. False words such as ancestral, suppression and secret system;

7. Exaggerated words such as power, special effect, full effect, powerful effect, miraculous effect, efficient, quick-acting and miraculous effect;

8. Prescription, compound prescription, treatment, anti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, blood circulation promoting, blood stasis removing, cough relieving, detoxification, curative effect, prevention and treatment, cancer prevention, cancer prevention, tumor, heightening, intelligence improving, names of various diseases, etc., which express or imply therapeutic effects;

9. Vulgar or feudal superstitious words such as Shendan and Shenxian.

(7) Chinese characters (except registered trademarks) must be used for the contents of the label. If pinyin, minority languages and foreign languages are used together, they shall not be larger than the corresponding Chinese characters (except registered trademarks).

The contents of packages, labels and logos must use standardized Chinese characters (except registered trademarks);

Pinyin or minority languages can be used at the same time, but not larger than the corresponding Chinese characters;

foreign languages can be used at the same time, but there should be a corresponding relationship with Chinese characters (the manufacturer and address of imported food, except the name and address and website address of foreign distributors);

All foreign languages shall not be larger than the corresponding Chinese characters (except registered trademarks).

(8) The content of compulsory marking shall not be less than 1.8mm.

when the maximum surface area of the package or packaging container is greater than 875px2, the height of the characters, symbols and numbers in the mandatory marking content shall not be less than 1.8mm .. When the maximum surface area of food or its packaging is less than 251px2, only the food name, producer name and address, net content, production date and shelf life can be marked. Food name, ingredient list, net content, factory name and address, production date, shelf life, product standard number, etc. are the mandatory contents of this standard. If all or part of the mandatory labeling contents on the inner package or container can be clearly identified through the outer package, the corresponding contents may not be repeatedly labeled on the outer package; If there is another outer package (or large package) outside the inner package (or container) for direct delivery to consumers, only the mandatory labeling content can be marked on the outer package (or large package).

(9) Food labels and labels shall not be separated from packaging materials (containers).

Labels and signs shall not be separated from food or its packaging (container).

(11) The food name label must be eye-catching and prominent, indicating the true attributes of the food, and must not be hidden, dark or ambiguous.

The General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods, the General Rules for Labeling in Pre-packaged foods for special dietary uses and the Regulations on the Administration of Food Labeling stipulate:

Packaging, labels and labels should be clearly marked with special names that show and reflect the true attributes of food;

Foods made from animal and plant foods and made by specific processing technology to imitate the characteristics of individuals, organs and tissues of other organisms should be prefixed with the words "artificial", "imitation" or "vegetarian" and marked with the classification (generic) name of the real attributes of the food;

when one or more names of a certain food have been specified in national standards or industrial standards, one of them, or an equivalent name, should be selected;

when there is no name specified by national standards or industry standards, common names or popular names that do not mislead or confuse consumers should be used;

It may be marked with "newly created name", "peculiar name", "transliteration name", "brand name", "regional slang name" or "trademark name", but one or more names of the food specified in national standards or industry standards or any one of the equivalent names shall be marked in the vicinity of the indicated names;

When "newly created name", "peculiar name", "transliteration name", "brand name", "regional slang name" or "trademark name" contain words or terms (words) that are easy to mislead people about the food properties, the same font size should be used in the adjacent parts of the name to indicate the special name of the real property of the food;

when the proper names of real attributes of food are easily misunderstood due to different font sizes, the proper names of real attributes of food should also be marked with the same font size. For example, "orange juice" and "beverage" in "orange juice beverage" and "chocolate" and "sandwich biscuit" in "chocolate sandwich biscuit" should all use the same font size;

To prevent consumers from misunderstanding or confusing the real attributes, physical state or preparation method of food, you can attach corresponding words or phrases before or after the food name. Such as dried, concentrated, reconstituted, smoked, fried, powdered and granular.

the name of a food which is made of two or more kinds of food by physical mixing and is uniform in appearance and difficult to separate from each other should reflect the mixing attribute and classification (generic) name of the food;

it is not allowed to use the drug name before and after the name of the food, or use the drug graphic and name (excluding the dual-purpose substances) to imply the curative effect and health care function.

In order to meet the physiological needs of some special people or the nutritional needs of patients with certain diseases, foods for special dietary uses, a food specially processed according to a special formula, can use modifiers with special meanings such as "infant formula milk (milk) powder", "sugar-free instant bean powder" (for diabetics) and "fortified iron high protein instant bean powder" (for anemic patients).

(11) The contents marked must have a list of ingredients.

prepackaged foods should mark the list of ingredients.

the list of ingredients should be titled "ingredients" or "ingredient list";

All ingredients should be arranged in descending order when food is manufactured or processed, and ingredients with a dosage of less than 2% need not be arranged in descending order;

Where sweeteners, preservatives and colorants are directly used in food, the specific names shall be marked under food additives in the ingredient list;

where other food additives are used, the specific names, types or codes may be marked.

(12) The label of net content shall not use illegal units of measurement, and shall be displayed on the same page as the food name.

The quantitative prepackaged foods shall be marked with the net content, which shall consist of the net content, figures and legal units of measurement. Such as "net content of 451g" or "net content of 451g";

The net content of food in packages (containers) should be marked in the following ways according to the legal measurement units in the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Measurement of Quantitative Packaged Commodities:

1, liquid food, with volume-L (1) (liter) and mL(ml) (milliliter);

2, solid food, consumption quality-g (g), kg (kg);

3, semi-solid or sticky food, with quality or volume.

the net content should be arranged on the same display page of the package or container as the food name.

For foods containing solid and liquid substances in containers (such as canned pears in syrup), besides the net content, the content of drained substances (solids) should also be marked. Expressed by mass or mass fraction.

Example: canned pear in syrup

Net content: 425g

Dried matter (which can also be marked as solid or pear pieces), not less than 255g (or not less than 61%)

If several pieces of the same prepackaged foods are contained in the same pre-package, the quantity or pieces of food should be marked at the same time as the net content, excluding the small pieces sold in large packages.

(13) The name and address of the factory must be marked.

prepackaged foods should indicate the name, address and contact information of the food producer. The place of origin of food shall be marked, and the place of origin of food shall be marked to the prefecture-level region according to administrative divisions. The name and address of the producer shall be the name and address of the producer who is legally registered and can bear the responsibility for product safety and quality. Youxia