. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CHN/59 
13 February 2004 
 (04-0584) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Health and Standardization Administration of China 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  ICS  67.080 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All 
countries and regions  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Hygienic standard for 
concentrated fruit and vegetable juice (plasm ) for food industry, (available in Chinese, 
4 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This standard stipulates the requirements of index, food additives, 
hygienic requirements in processing, packag ing, marking, storage, transportation and 
determination methods of concentrated fruit a nd vegetable juice (plasm) for food industry.  
This standard applies to concentrated fruit juice (plasm) made from fruits, vegetables and 
other plants, which are cleaned, extracted (o r plasm making), concentrated and sterilized, 
without artificial composed pigments, packed in  close container, used to deep production. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [   ] protec t territory from other 
damage from pests 
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health, 
[   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [   ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:  According to CAC <Code currency standards 
of contaminations and toxins in  foods-2001>:  arsenic in juice ≤ 1.0mg/L, lead ≤ 0.05mg/L.  
It is not suitable to adopt the contaminati on standards in juice during this standard 
emending the standards of concentrated juice. 
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:  Chinese 
GB2760 Hygienic standards for the use of food additives GB/T4789.21 Microbiological examination of food hygiene, Examination of frozen 
drinking and drink 
GB/T5009.11 Determination of total and inorganic arsenic in foods 
GB/T5009.12 Determination of lead in foods 
GB/T5009.13 Determination of copper in foods  G/SPS/N/CHN/59 
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  GB/T5009.185 Determination of Patuli n in apple and hawthorn products 
GB7718 The universal standard of food labels GB12695 Good manufacture practice of drink enterprise  
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   6 months after adoption 
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty days after the date of notification 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notificati on authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: