What is a food additive?

According to the definition in GB 2760-2014 National Food Safety Standard Standard for Uses of Food Additives, food additive Refers to an artificially chemosynthetic or natural substance to be added to foods in order to improve food quality, color, fragrance and taste, and for the purpose of preservation and processing technology.

How to view food additives scientifically?

Under the premise of standard use, food additives are added to improve food quality. The use purpose of food additives is to enhance the taste, and in order to maintain food safety, laws and regulations have already drawn a red line, moderate intake, there is no danger.

(I) The basic requirements for the use of food additives:

l Must not present any hazard to health of human;

l Must not disguise rancidity of foods;

l Must not disguise any quality deficiency of foods themselves or that caused during the processing, or for the purpose of adulteration and counterfeit;

l Must not lower the nutritional quality of foods;

l The amount should be as low as possible once the anticipant effect has been reached;

(II) Food additives can be applied in the following cases:

l To keep or improve the nutrition value of food itself;

l To serve as essential ingredients or components in some special dietary foods;

l To improve the quality and stability of food, to improve their organoleptic attribute;

l To facilitate production, processing, packaging, transport or storage of foods.

How to supervise food additives at customs port?

1. Check purchase management

Food additives must be purchased and managed in the same way as other foods and food raw materials. Special personnel are required to be responsible for the purchase, and the source can be traced and recorded.

★Traceable -- three certificates should be required for upstream suppliers: supplier's business license, food production and operation license and inspection certificate of each batch of food additive.

★Records -- refers to the food additive purchase and acceptance ledger, which requires detailed records of purchase date, goods name, specifications, manufacturer, production date, shelf life, acceptance status, etc. The retention period of records and vouchers should not be less than six months after the expiration of product shelf life; if the shelf life is not specified, the shelf life should not be less than two years.

2. Check storage management

In addition to meeting the requirements of general food warehouse for classified storage and away from wall and floor, food additives must be specialized storage, special collection, special registration, special cabinet storage (especially emphasizing that it is best to use a special lock for special cabinet).

3. Check use management

It is required to be in strict accordance with the scope of use, the use of dosage, the use of conditions, carry-over principles, etc. stipulated by the national standards, focus on the maximum use of each kind of food additive, and make the use of registration each time, especially the food additives used by homemade drinks, homemade seasoning and homemade hot pot base are required to make public.

4. Check product itself

Food additives should have labels, instructions and packages, which should meet the requirements of national laws and standards, clearly indicate the scope of use, usage and use method of food additives, and indicate the word "food additives" on the label. At the same time, check whether the product itself has expired, deterioration and other conditions.

Source: Nanning Customs

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