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Regulations on the implementation of the People's Republic of China Standardization Law.

Country/Territory
China
Document type
Regulation
Date
1990
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Unofficial translation, 5 pp.
Subject
Livestock, Food & nutrition, Fisheries, Forestry, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Standards Authorization/permit Institution Food quality control/food safety Hygiene/sanitary procedures Planting material/seeds Soil pollution/quality Plant production
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

These Regulations require that standards be worked out and implemented in a planned way for specified categories of technical requirements, including safety and hygiene in the process of production, storage and transport; environmental protection; and the variety, specification, quality, grade, examination, packing, storage, transport, production, and management of farm products (including forestry, animal husbandry, fishery products, seeds, seedlings, breeding stock and breeding poultry). Differing levels of responsibility for working out, implementing and supervising standardization are exercised by a national department under the State Council, related administrative departments under the State Council departments under provincial, autonomous regional and municipal people's governments, and relevent administrative departments in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. State and trade standards are divided into mandatory and recommended standards. Standards for human and animal medicines, food hygiene, discharge of pollutants, quality of the environment, and safety and hygiene in the production, storage, transport and use of products are mandatory standards. The Act prohibits production, sale, and import of products which are below the mandatory standards. The Act provides a role for trade associations, scientific and technological research institutes and academic organizations in working out standard and recommends that standards be reviewed every five years.

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Regulations of the People's Republic of China for the administration of product quality certification.

Legislation | China | 1991

Keyword: Standards, Authorization/permit, Institution, International trade, Certification, Inspection, Food quality control/food safety

Source: FAO, FAOLEX