General Administration of Customs: Announcement on matters relating to the supervision and management of import and export pre-packaged food label inspection (draft for comments)
In order to implement the State Council's requirements for reinforcing the ”fangguanfu”reform and further improve the efficiency of customs clearance at ports, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Food Safety Law, the relevant matters concerning the supervision and management of label inspection of import and export pre-packaged foods are as follows: Since the X X of 2019, the first import of pre-packaged food labeling requirements has been cancelled. imported pre-packaged food labels as one of the food inspection items shall be inspected by the Customs in accordance with the relevant laws and administrative regulations on import and export commodity inspection. If they are unqualified, they shall not be imported. The importer shall be responsible for reviewing whether the Chinese label of the imported prepackaged food meets the relevant laws, administrative regulations and national food safety standards. If the inspection fails, it shall not be imported.
