. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CHN/66 
13 February 2004 
 (04-0589) 
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  67.120.30 
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 
salt and liquor-saturated aquatic products of an imal origin (available in Chinese, 5 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This standard stipulates the definition, requirements of index, food 
additives, hygienic requirements in processing, marking, packaging, storage, transportation 
and determination methods of salt and liquor-sat urated aquatic product of animal origin.  
This standard applies to the directly eaten salt & liquor-saturated aquatic products made 
from live mud snail, river crab, crab, shrimp , seashell and fresh sea crab, which are salted, 
inebriated, added supplementary materials or not .  This standard also applies to aquatic 
processed products made from fresh shuttle crab , which are cleaned with water, thrown off 
the crab shell, gill and the end of crab feet, salted and crushed. 
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:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health, 
[   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:   
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:  Chinese 
GB 2733 Hygienic standards for fresh, frozen aquatic products of animal origin 
GB 2760 Hygienic standards for uses of food additives 
GB/T 4789.20 Microbiological examination of  food hygiene, Examination of aquatic 
product foods 
GB/T 5009.11 Determination of tota l and inorganic arsenic in foods 
GB/T 5009.12 Determination of lead in foods 
GB/T 5009.15 Determination of cadmium in foods 
GB/T 5009.17 Determination of tota l and organic mercury in foods G/SPS/N/CHN/66 
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  GB/T 5009.26 Determination of N-nitrosamines in foods 
GB/T 5009.39 Method for analysis of hygienic standard of soybean sauce GB/T 5009.44 Method for analysis of hygien ic standard of meat and meat products 
GB/T 5009.190 Determination of polychlorinated biphenyl in seafoods GB 7718 The universal standard of food labels 
GB 14881 General hygienic regulation for food enterprises  
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: