General office of the national health and family planning commission statement on poised containing aluminum using food additives regulations propaganda and implementation of notice 
 
 
 
The 2014-09-03 national health and population and family planning commission of the People's Republic of China

Countries who do food letter [2014] no. 772 

Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government health and family planning commission (health bureaus), the xinjiang production and construction corps health bureau, the national center for food safety risk assessment: 
 
        As well by commission jointly with the ministry of industry and information technology, the general administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, food and drug supervision and other grain bureau about 5 department including aluminum joint announcement of the rules of using food additives (hereinafter referred to as the "notice") propaganda work, are now notified as follows: 
 
        One, to actively carry out family planning administrative department of public health around the announcement of the propaganda and training, make the food safety supervision department, inspection agencies, food industry and food production and business operation entities and practitioners to accurately grasp the "announcement" regulation, to improve the level of supervision personnel administration according to law, scientific and regulatory capacity, earnestly implement the "notice" requirement. To earnestly aluminized adjust the interpretation of the work standards of using food additives, food risk assessment center will continue to strengthen the place to carry out the "announcement" propaganda reading guidance work. 
 
        Around two, according to the enterprise standard measures for the administration of food safety requirements and by commission of "strengthen the guidance of the food safety standards" (the health food is sent [2013] no. 18), to strengthen the food safety of involving aluminized food additive enterprise standard filing management. For the filing of standards and is inconsistent with the "notice" requirement, once found, food production enterprises shall be amended immediately the original enterprise standards, and for the record. 
 
        Three, should actively cooperate with relevant food safety regulators around the announcement of the implementation of law enforcement inspection activities, to crack down on beyond, excess aluminum containing food additives abuse behavior. To timely understand and collect "announcement" implementation, the implementation of the announcement of the well through common effort. 
 
        Related problems in the execution of this circular, please timely inform by food department. 

General office of national health and family planning commission
 
On August 25, 2014