What does the food safety standard include? Food Safety Law Article 26 stipulates that food safety standards should include the limits of substances hazardous to human health in food, food-related products, varieties of food additives, the scope of use, the amount of food additives, and the nutrient content requirements of the main and auxiliary foods for specific groups of people. I'll give you a detailed introduction about what food safety standards include. Food safety standards include what content Food safety standards are mandatory standards to protect public health and life safety. Therefore, what matters should be formulated as food safety standards need to be clearly stipulated in the law, so as to provide guidelines and basis for the formulation of food safety standards. According to the provisions of Article 26 of the Food Safety Law, the contents of food safety standards include: (1) provisions on the limits of substances hazardous to human health in food and food-related products. Substances hazardous to human health in food and food-related products include pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, heavy metals, pollutants and other substances hazardous to human health. Microorganisms are categorized into pathogenic microorganisms and non-pathogenic microorganisms according to their pathogenicity to humans and animals. Pathogenic microorganisms include bacteria, viruses and fungi. The problem of pesticide residues has arisen with the widespread use of pesticides in agricultural production. Some of the pesticides currently in use can become harmless through biodegradation in a relatively short period of time, while most of them are difficult to degrade and have strong residues. Pesticides enter into grain, vegetables, fruits, fish, shrimp, meat, eggs and milk, causing food contamination and jeopardizing human health. Veterinary drug residues refer to the residues of prototype drugs or their metabolites, including impurities related to veterinary drugs, that accumulate or remain in the bodies of livestock and poultry or in products (e.g., eggs, milk, meat) after the use of veterinary drugs. Heavy metals refer to metals with a specific gravity greater than 5 and are generally transition elements. For example, copper, lead, zinc, iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, cadmium, mercury, tungsten, molybdenum, gold and silver, all heavy metals are toxic to humans above a certain concentration. If rivers, lakes, oceans and soils are contaminated with heavy metals, if fish or shellfish accumulate heavy metals and are eaten by humans, or if heavy metals are absorbed by crops such as rice and wheat and are eaten by humans, the heavy metals enter the human body leading to heavy metal poisoning. Pollutants in a broad sense include any substances that are not intentionally added to food, but are brought into food in the course of food production, manufacturing, processing, preparation, handling, filling, packaging, transportation and storage, or as a result of environmental pollution. The above substances and other substances hazardous to human health are prohibited from being added to food artificially, but they may enter food to a greater or lesser extent due to the production process, environmental pollution and other reasons, and eventually enter the human body. The intake of hazardous substances by the human body exceeds a certain level, which will jeopardize human health. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the maximum value permitted to safeguard human health and set the limits of various hazardous substances in food. Second, the varieties of food additives, the scope of use, dosage. Food additives are synthetic or natural substances added to food to improve the quality of food and color, aroma and taste, as well as for preservation, freshness and processing needs. China currently allows the use of food additives, including acidity regulators, anti-caking agents, defoamers, antioxidants, bleaching agents, bulking agents, gum-based confectionery in the base agent substances, coloring agents, color protectors, emulsifiers, enzymes, genetically modified micro-organisms, flavor enhancers, flour treatment agents, filming agents, moisture retaining agents, nutritional enhancers, preservatives, stabilizers and coagulants, sweeteners, thickening agents, food flavorings, food processing aids and so on. The food additives can be used in a variety of ways, such as food industry processing aids, and so on. Abuse of food additives will seriously jeopardize human health, so it is necessary to develop standards to strictly limit its varieties, scope of use and dosage. Nutritional Requirements for Foods for Infants and Young Children and Specific Populations. Infants and young children is an important period of healthy growth in a person's life, this period if you can get a reasonable dietary nutrition, will certainly lay a good material foundation for its later life of physical and intellectual development. Various nutrients in the main and supplementary foods for infants and young children must be scientifically matched, and a certain nutrient can neither be too much nor too little. Less will lead to malnutrition, more will cause poisoning. The nutrient composition of staple and supplementary foods for infants and young children is not only related to the nutrition of the food, but also to the health and safety of infants and young children, and it is necessary to stipulate the maximum amount and minimum amount of nutrients and other requirements after risk assessment, so as to make infants and young children satisfy nutritional needs while ensuring the safety of consumption. Similarly, some other specific groups of people also have special requirements for the nutrient content of primary and secondary foods, which require the formulation of standards. Requirements for labeling, marking and instructions related to food safety and nutrition. Food labels, labels, instructions in many of the contents are directly or indirectly related to consumer safety when consumed, such as the name, specifications, net content, date of production; composition or ingredient list; producer's name, address, contact information; shelf life; product standard code; storage conditions; the use of food additives; production license number. These contents of the labeling should be true and accurate, easy to understand, scientific and legal, the need to develop standards to provide uniform requirements. Fifth, food production and management process of health requirements. Food production and management process is to ensure food safety is an important link, which each process has certain health requirements. For example, tableware, drinking utensils and containers holding directly imported food should be washed and disinfected before use; storage, transportation and handling of food containers, tools and equipment should be safe and harmless; directly imported food should be small packages or the use of non-toxic, clean packaging materials, tableware; water should be in line with the national provisions of the drinking water hygiene standards; the use of detergents, disinfectants should be safe for humans, Harmless. These need to develop standards to harmonize requirements. Sixth, the quality requirements related to food safety. Quality requirements related to food safety, also belongs to the development of food safety standards. Food testing methods and procedures. Food test methods and procedures, including detection or test principles, categories, sampling, sampling, operation, accuracy requirements, instruments, equipment, detection or test conditions, methods, steps, data calculation, analysis of results, passing standards and re-examination of the rules and other aspects of the uniform provisions. VIII. Other contents that need to be formulated as food safety standards. Other content includes other not explicitly listed, but involves food safety, the need to develop standards for the content. There is a need to communicate to solve the problem, if the content is not too clear also want to further understand, we recommend that you seek the help of online lawyers.
Legal objective:The Chinese people*** and the State Food Safety Law "Article 26 Food safety standards should include the following: (a) food, food additives, food-related products in the pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, residues of veterinary drugs, biological toxins, heavy metals and other pollutants, as well as other substances hazardous to human health, the limit; (b) the food (b) varieties of food additives, scope of use, dosage; (c) nutritional composition requirements for primary and secondary foods intended for infants and young children and other specific groups; (d) requirements for labeling, marking and instructions related to hygiene, nutrition and other food safety requirements; (e) hygiene requirements for food production and operation processes; (f) quality requirements related to food safety; (g) food testing methods and protocols related to food safety; (H) other needs to be developed into food safety standards.