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🙅🏻♂️ On October 24, 2024, the General Administration of #Customs of #China (GACC) published the list of non-compliant #food products for September 2024. A total of 471 batches of imported food from 36 countries/regions were rejected. ✅ Noteworthy points: - Incompliance with food national standards and unqualified labeling are the main reasons for the customs rejection. - Most rejected food came from the #US, followed by #SouthKorea and #Ecuador. - Four batches of infant formula and follow-up formula products and three batches of complementary baby foods failed customs clearance. ➡️ Further details: https://lnkd.in/gwg85fRS   #importation #foodsafety #chinesemarket #marketaccess #customsclearance #labeling #dairy #infantformula #babyfood #packaging

🗓On September 29, 2024, 🇨🇳China released a national standard (#GB/T 44652-2024), which establishes requirements of declaration for #hazardous substance (#HS)/ hazardous substance group (#HSG) in #electrical and electronic products (#EEP). 🧐The standard specifies the content below: ✅ #HS/#HSG needs to be declared mandatorily ✅ Optional declaration ✅ Reporting threshold level ✅ Declaration content  ✅ Declaration under China #RoHS 👉Click here to explore more details: https://lnkd.in/gFR4dcun #electronic #RoHS #hazchem #HS #HSG #EEP

🇮🇩 On September 30, 2024, #Indonesia BPOM unveiled a draft notice to amend BPOM Regulation No. 13 of 2023 on Food Categories by introducing changes to food categories and raw materials derived from plants or animals. Please check the following article for more details. #foodindustry #rawmaterials #ingredient #regulation #regulatorycompliance

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🇲🇾 On October 17, 2024, #Malaysia enacted the Malaysia Border Control and Protection Agency Act 2024 (Act 860), which provides for the establishment of the Malaysia Border Control and Protection Agency. This agency will oversee various functions and powers related to border control and protection. Please click the link below for more details. #crossbordertrade #marketaccess #regulation #importation #foodindustry

🇮🇳 On October 18, 2024, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of #India (FSSAI) released the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) First Amendment Regulations, 2024 with immediate effect. ✅ This amendment primarily relaxes some restrictions on the sale of edible oils, dairy products, and packaged water. For example, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Certification Mark is removed for the sale, storage, and exhibition of food for infant nutrition. Please check the following article for more details. #foodsafety #regulatorycompliance #regulation #foodindustry #oil #dairy #water #nutrition #FSSAI

During the latest meeting held on June 19, 2024, #India's Drugs Consultative Committee (DCC) reviewed a proposal, which mandated the inclusion of International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients (#INCI) names in the #ingredient statement on cosmetic product labels🔖. The proposal aimed to improve ingredient identification and enhance label transparency. After thorough deliberation, the DCC concluded that incorporating INCI names on cosmetic labels would not be feasible due to space constraints. Instead, the committee recommended that the #cosmetics industry continue to follow the existing Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standards for ingredient labeling. Check out more details of the current cosmetic labeling requirements at👇 https://lnkd.in/gPnGtD6r #regulatoryupdates #regulatorycompliance #regulatoryrequirements

🗓On October 14, 2024, 🇪🇺European Council adopted the revision of Regulation (#EC) No 1272/2008 on the #classification, #labelling and #packaging of substances and mixtures (#CLP Regulation).’ 🧐The major elements of the legislative proposal include comprehensive identification and classification of chemical #hazards, improve hazard communication, addressing legal gaps and ambiguities of #CLP provisions. 👉Click here to know more details: https://lnkd.in/g4Mh9Yzy #CLP #REACH #EC #GHS #EU #packaging

On October 1, 2024, #Thailand's Ministry of Industry announced in the Official Gazette the approval of eight new voluntary Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TIS) standards📋 for #cosmetics. These standards cover a range of areas critical to cosmetic #safety and quality, including #microbiological testing, analytical methods, sun protection evaluation, as well as natural and organic cosmetic #ingredients. The eight standards all took into effect on October 2, 2024. Check out the details of the eight approved standards at👇 https://lnkd.in/g9XDhKQ7 #regulatoryupdates #regulatorycompliance #regulations

🇰🇷 On October 17, 2024, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of #SouthKorea published the revised Standard of Sodium and Sugar Reduction Label. Key revisions include the expansion of sodium and sugar reduction labeling scopes, effective immediately. Please click the link below for more details. #labeling #ingredient #sodium #sugar #foodsafety #regulatorycompliance #regulation #foodindustry