China Regulatory Round-up for Health Food from November 2020 to January 2021

On November 11, 2020, the Department of Food Safety Standards, Risk Surveillance and Assessment under the National Health Commission (NHC) announced that 4 new food additives and 2 new additives used in food-contact articles have passed the safety evaluation, thereby permitting their use in China:

New food additives

Food colorant extracted from red yeast rice
Citric acid
Sucralose
Sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP)

New additives used in food-contact articles

Polyethylene
Acrylic acid-1,3-butadiene-styrene polymer

On January 7, 2021, the NHC announced that 3 new food ingredients, 5 new food additives and 7 new additives used in food-contact articles have passed the safety evaluation and extended its product scope:

New food ingredients

Cicada flower (Isaria cicadae Miq.)
Fruiting bodies (artificial cultivation)
Sodium hyaluronate
Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens subsp. kefiranofaciens

New food additives

β-amylase
Nitrous oxide
Vitamin K2 (synthetic)
Dava gum
Sodium alginate (also known as sodium alginate)

New additives used in food-contact articles

1,3,5-tris(2,2-dimethylpropionamide)benzene
Iron oxide
Magnesium hydroxide
Magnesium aluminum hydroxide carbonate (hydrate)
Polycyclooctene
1,3-Benzenedicarboxylic acid polymer with dimethyl 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate,2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol and 1,2-ethanediol
1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, 1,4-dimethyl ester, polymer with decanedioic acid, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediol and 1,2- ethanediol

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