Title: Analysis on food packaging materials laws and regulations and standards between China and some developed countries
Abstract: With the growing emphasis on food safety, food packaging as an important part of the food contact, its importance of safety and management performance is well known. The countries of the world, especially the European Union(EU) and the United States(USA) and other developed countries have formed a mature management mechanism for food packaging. A comparative analysis was made to the relevant provisions of EU, USA and China in food packaging materials laws, regulations, and standards. And for differences for food packaging definition and the relevant provisions in EU, USA and China are briefly analyzed, as well as the materials management were briefly introduced. The problems of current situation of Chinese food packaging materials standards were found. China should speed up the revision of the standard, improve the standard system, and establish the scientific standards development process based on risk assessment, and should strive to make international, national, industry, and food packaging companies to work together to develop standards.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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