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G/SPS/N/CHN/392 
20 July 2011 
 (11-3645) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  CHINA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Health (MOH) 
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):  Food additive Pullulan 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  National Food Safety Standard of the People's Republic 
of China:  Food Additive Pullulan  Language(s):  Chinese  Number of pages:  6 
 http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/sps/CHN/11_2259_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This standard applies to food additive Pullulan made from 
carbohydrate by pure-culture fermentation of a strain of Aureobasidium Pullulans .  It 
specifies the technical requirements and tes ting methods for food additive Pullulan.  
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)  
 The specification of Pullulan prepared at the 65th JECFA (2005). 
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [X] No G/SPS/N/CHN/392 
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   If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
The indexes of this standard are as follows: 
I t e m          I n d e x   
Viscosity/(mPa s)       2500~4000 Mono-,di- and oligosaccharides(calculated as glucose)/ % ≤ 10 
Total nitrogen/%      ≤ 0.05 
Loss on drying/%      ≤ 10 
Lead (Pb)/(mg/kg)      ≤ 2.0 
Loss on ignition/%      ≤ 8 
p H          6 . 0 ~ 8 . 0  All the changes are based on th e analysis of Chinese products. 
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:      
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  18 September 2011 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: