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Vietnamese shrimp will have more market share in the global market

  From SeafoodNews on October 30, since the EU -Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) came into effect in the middle of this year, Vietnam’s shrimp exports to the EU have increased by 10%-20% compared to the same period last year, making the amount of exports in the first nine months reached 2.7 billion US dollars, an increase of 10%. Vietnam's farmed shrimp is one of the strongest recovery projects after the COVID-19 epidemic. It is estimated that by the end of this year, the total export value will reach 3.8 billion US dollars, an increase of 10% over 2019. In recent years, the continuous improvement of the quality of Vietnamese shrimp products has enabled it to occupy a larger share in the main market. In order to maintain this momentum, Vietnamese companies have made every effort to develop a closed-loop supply chain so that the origin of the product can be traced at any time. Although the COVID-19 pandemic still poses global challenges, the demand for fishery products has increased by 5% this year. In view of Vietnam's signed free trade agreement and the country's determination to improve quality, in the long run, it is expected that Vietnamese shrimp will penetrate the global market more deeply. Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

Australia will implement electronic certification for milk and milk products exported to Japan

  On November 3, 2020, the Australian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment issued the notice of MAA 2020-24, which will implement paperless electronic certification for milk and dairy products exported to Japan. The key points of the notice are as follows:   1. Following negotiations between the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) and Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Australian exports of all dairy and dairy products to Japan will now occur via paperless trading through eCert. 2. Paper export certificates will no longer be available as they are no longer required by MHLW and MAFF. 3. only electronic certification issued through the eCert exchange, will be eligible for import clearance in Japan. This is done directly through a government to government exchange. 4. Exporters are encouraged to complete all pending request for permits prior to the change over date. 5. Certificate defaults will be updated as part of the changeover to eCert. 6. There have been no changes to Japan’s sanitary requirements for dairy and dairy products exported to Japan. 7. The department’s Manual of importing Country Requirements (MICoR) page will be updated to reflect the changes to certification requirements. 8. The previous certification arrangements will not be accepted by Japan for exports occurring on or after 10 November 2020. The effective date of this notice is November 10, 2020. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

India intends to amend the prohibition and restriction of food safety and standards

  On October 27, 2020, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued the Gazette Notice Stds/O&F/Notification (12)/FSSAI-2019, that is, " Food Safety and Standards Regulations (Prohibition and Restriction of Sale of Food )" 2020 No. 3 amendment case. The revised content is: 1. The supplement stipulates that the total polar compound content in unused or fresh vegetable oil or fat shall not exceed 15%; 2. The content of total polar compounds in the reused vegetable oil or fat shall not exceed 25%. The amendment will take effect on the date of publication in the Gazette, and the transition period will be until July 1, 2021. Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

EU revised new food list

  2020 October 27, the official publication of the European Union (EU) No. 2020/1559 implementing regulations, revised (EU) No. 2017/2470 regulations , namely the new EU food list. The revised content includes: 1. Add three new foods, including kelp seaweed extract, seaweed polyphenols, in Annex 1 (list of approved new foods), and stipulate the scope of use, dosage limits, and special labelling requirements for the above substances. The quality specifications are specified in Annex II; 2. In Attachment 1, the entries for five new foods including dihydroquercetin extract have been revised, and the scope of products used has been adjusted. The regulations took effect 20 days after the communiqué was published. Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

Australia releases draft of 2020 export control rules for comments

  The Australian government is improving its agricultural product export laws. The framework of the new legislation will be implemented on March 28, 2021, including the Export Control Act 2020 and the Export Control Rules 2020. Earlier, the Australian government has issued 2020 export control regulations comments first part of the draft, including seven kinds of commodities for counseling. On October 27, 2020, Australia issued the G/SPS/N/AUS/433/Add.6 notification, which announced the second part of the 2020 export control rules for comments, including the following three draft rules: -Draft for comments on export control rules in 2020 (animals) -Draft for comments on export control rules in 2020 (rabbit and ratite bird meat and its products) -Draft for comments on export control rules in 2020 (wild animal meat and its products) Related information can be found on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment: https://www.agriculture.gov.au/market-access-trade/improving-export-legislation. The feedback period for the second part of the draft rules ends on January 8, 2021. For more details, see: http://spsims.wto.org/en/ModificationNotifications/View/168276?FromAllNotifications=True Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

Vietnam issues technical requirements for chilled chicken and duck meat for food

  2020 October 27, Vietnam released G / SPS / N / VNM / Bulletin No. 114, issued food with frozen poultry (including chickens only cold duck technical requirements) of. According to the notification, Vietnam has formulated the "National Standard: Frozen Meat-Part 3: Poultry Meat", involving products including boneless and bone-in meat. This standard stipulates the main sensory characteristics, physical and chemical indicators, and maximum limits of heavy metals for frozen poultry meat. , Microbiological index requirements, etc. The standard is planned to take effect in January 2021. Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

Japan strengthens monitoring and inspection of dimethomorph in Chinese carrots

  On November 2, 2020, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released drug raw lose hair 1102 No. 1 notification, strengthen the Chinese production of carrots in dimethomorph monitoring inspection , the lifting of Chinese-made taro chlorpyrifos strengthen monitoring an examination. When inspecting carrots produced in China, it was found that they violated the standards for pesticide residues. Therefore, the frequency of monitoring and inspection of the limit of dimethomorph residues in Chinese carrots will be increased to 30%. In addition, based on the actual inspection results in the past year, the intensive monitoring and inspection of chlorpyrifos in taro from China was lifted. Check the strengthening date Country Check name Check item Manufacturers, manufacturers, exporters and packers November 2, 2020 China Carrots and processed products (only for simple processing) Residual pesticide (dimethomorph) LIANYUNGANG MINGFENG FOOD CO.,LTD SHANDONG NONGKEYUAN BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY CO .,LTD Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

The Ministry of Public Health of Thailand issued the "Maximum Residue Limits of Pesticides in Food (No. 3)

  On November 2, Thai government gazette Public Health Ministry No. 419 Notice, "food pesticide maximum residue limits (No.3)". The contents of the announcement are as follows: 1. Revise the definition of "Category 4 Hazardous Substances". 2. Revised the pesticide residue standards and pesticide residue detection and analysis methodsin food. 3. The newly added five types of pesticide substances are "category 4 hazardous substances". 4. Chlorpyrifos and paraquat must not be detected in food. 5. This announcement will be implemented on June 1, 2021. Please note: This article is translated based on Google web translation software, if there is an error, please contact us as soon as possible to correct. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

South Korea issued part of the revised list of "Import Livestock Products Declaration and Inspection Essentials"

  On November 2, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea issued a partial revision of "import Livestock Products Declaration and Inspection Essentials". The main contents are as follows: 1. imported livestock products that are not subject to the inspection fee exemption for imported food and other inspection fees specified in Schedule 15 of the "imported Food Safety Management Special Act Implementation Rules" shall be charged a fee. 2. Uniformly stipulate the import declaration standards and inspection objects as "the same company and the same imported livestock product category" of the same B/L; The definition of "product name" is newly set, and if there are additional limits for residues of veterinary drugs, pesticides or pollutants in the Codex Alimentarius, inspections shall be conducted in accordance with the regulations. 3. Clearly specify inspection items and methods for precision inspection and random inspection. 4. Improve the precision inspection of livestock products and substandard livestock products returned to exporting countries. 5. In order to strengthen the safety management of the delivery and custody of inspection samples, only those who have made a declaration for the transportation of animal products can send inspection samples of animal products. 6. Disclosure of information related to the first precision inspection items, and information during meat inspections (country of production, varieties, overseas factories) when standard specifications are newly set or strengthened. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net

Banning of Insecticide Order 2020 and Future of the 27 Molecules in India

This year in the month of May, Ministry of Agriculture issued a draft order banning the use and sale of 27 pesticides in India. The draft order came as a surprise, for the Indian agrochemical industry, as these 27 products constitute for almost 40% of total sale of pesticides in Indian market. Not just domestically, but some of the molecules are among the biggest exports of agrochemicals from India. How these 27 molecules were selected First of all, many wonders from where did this list of 27 molecules come? How did government select these 27 molecules and on what bases was it decided to ban them? On 8th July 2013, Department of Agriculture, government of India, constituted an expert committee under the leadership of Dr. Anupam Verma, to review the use of neonicotinoid pesticides registered in India. Later the committee also reviewed 66 pesticides which were at that time banned / restricted / withdrawn for usage in one or more countries, but were being sold and used in India. Among others the main area of work of the committee was to analyze these 66 molecules on toxicity parameters including toxicity to honey bee, aquatic organisms, carcinogenicity, WHO classification by hazard and persistent organic Pollutants (POP) based on international conventions. After deliberation and reviewing available scientific data, the committee recommended out of those 66 pesticides, 18 to be continued for usage, 6 to be phased out by year 2020, 13 to be completely banned in the country and 27 to be reviewed again in 2018 after completion of recommended studies. The list of these 27 pesticides is as follows: This report submitted in year 2015 is the base of the draft notification, which the government issued in May 2020, banning the use of those 27 pesticides, which were to be reviewed again in year 2018. After the notification, many registration managers of foreign companies (specially from China) started inquiring about the fate of these molecules. Some of them were planning to start registration of 1 or more molecules from this list. Some had even started with the registration process and all were worried as to what will happen to already invested money and the months of efforts put into selecting and finalizing the registration molecules for Indian market. Now the point to note here, which most of us missed out, is that the notification issued in May 2020 was just a draft order, which was to be implemented only after getting feedback and consultation with all stakeholders, including pesticide manufacturers in India. In the draft order it clearly mentions that 45 days are given for the review of this order and “Any objection or suggestion which may be received from any person in respect of the said draft order before the expiry of the aforesaid period of 45 days will be considered by the central government.” On June 2nd 2020, the ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, after receiving representation from HIL (India) Ltd, PMFAI, FICCI and Chemexcil wrote a letter to Department of Agriculture explaining the situation about usage of these molecules and opposing the proposed ban. The letter very clearly mentioned that since all the required data as per the insecticides act has already been submitted, along with additional data as and when required by Central Insecticide Board, hence availability of insufficient data can not be grounds to ban these products. Moreover, ‘banning of a particular pesticide by a few countries based on some studies somewhere’ does not provide enough grounds to CIB&RC for banning of these products in India. And any step to ban any chemical should only be taken after ‘due socio-economic impact assessment’. With various trade organizations, agrochemical associations, Chemical and Fertilizer Ministry, farmers opposing the unilateral proposal of CIB&RC to ban these 27 products, the department of agriculture didn’t move ahead with the implementation of the draft order. Future of these 27 Molecules Although there was no implementation of the draft order after 45 days of its initial publication, apprehension about future of these 27 molecules is still there in minds of many in the Industry, and they feel that Department of Agriculture or CIB&RC should come up with a follow up clarification order, clearly stating that the use of these pesticides has not been banned. Now this will not happen for mainly 2 reasons. First of all it was a draft order and had no legal binding until it was formally implemented, hence there is no need for CIB&RC to come up with a new order stating that first order is null and void. Secondly, legally, if the draft order on the expiry of 45 days period mentioned was not implemented or its feedback period was not extended, it automatically becomes null and void for future implementation. Moreover during Khariff season in India, sale and use of these 27 pesticides mentioned in the draft order was completely allowed by the CIB&RC and state agricultural departments. There was not any kind of opposition from any of the government departments across the country on domestic usage of these pesticides. In future, as far as my understanding goes, CIB&RC or agricultural department will not come up with a unilateral order banning the use of these pesticides. Government should setup a new expert committee to carefully assess threat of these pesticides on environment, human life and the socio-economic impact any banning would have on Indian agricultural and Agrochemical sector. Until such a committee is formed, and the committee after taking long – term studies into consideration and feedback of all stakeholders doesn’t recommend banning of these products again, sale and usage of these agrochemicals should be completely permitted in domestic Indian market without any hassle. The article is from 2020 INDIA PESTICIDE SUPPLIERS GUIDE magazine. Business Division of Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance of Global Foodmate provides food standards & regulations research, labelling compliance consulting/Chinese label design, industry public opinion monitoring and analysis, registration services (of Infant formula, FSMP, Health food, Novel Food Ingredients, Novel Food Additives, New Varieties of Food-Related Products and Overseas manufacturers of imported food) and other comprehensive food safety solutions for domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions in food industry.  Please feel free to contact us: +86 10 68869850, E-mail: global_info@foodmate.net