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G/SPS/N/CHN/378 
13 July 2011 
 (11-3450) 
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 Indigotine aluminum lake 
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 Indigotine Aluminum Lake  Language(s):  Chinese  Number of 
pages:  11 
 http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/sps/CHN/11_2101_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This standard applies to food additive Indigotine aluminum lake 
produced by reacting indigotine with aluminium hydroxide.  It specifies the technical 
requirements and testing methods for food additive Indigotine aluminum lake.  
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 Indigotine aluminum lake prepared at the 63rd JECFA(2004). 
[ ] 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/378 
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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  
Total colouring matters/%      ≥ 10.0 
Loss on drying/%      ≤ 30.0 
Hydrochloric acid and ammonia insoluble matters/%  ≤ 0.50 
Subsidiary colouring matters/%     ≤ 1.0 
Arsenic (As)/(mg/kg)      ≤ 3 
Lead (Pb)/(mg/kg)      ≤ 10 
Barium (Ba) /(mg/kg)      ≤ 500 
All the changes are based on 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) :  11 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: