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In other countries, food packaging safety and food quality and safety are eually important. To protect food safety, the world is not only the quality of the food itself, made more stringent hygiene requirements, while its packaging has also developed a very high standard, put forward strict requirements, and some require the implementation of some developed countries has become technical barriers to trade one of the means.
    Food packaging includes plastic bags, paper bags, aluminum foil bag, glass, ceramic bottles, tin cans, plastic film, etc. in packaging and materials, as well as cardboard boxes, plastic barrels, steel drums and other packaging and materials, these packaging materials in the because of excessive harmful ingredients may affect the quality of food, damage to human health. The major countries of China’s food exports the United States, Japan and the European Union, these countries import food packaging have recently issued a series of technical regulations and measures to strengthen the safety of imported food packaging management.
    International Organization for Standardization: August 2009, the International Organization for Standardization ISO in the HACCP standards of safety management system developed based on the “food safety management systems – on the food chain requirements of any organization” (ISO22000). ISO22000 is a voluntary international standard, is a new food safety management system standard defined the common food safety management requirements, it is intended to ensure that the food supply chain, there is no weak link in the food chain covering the whole process, that is planting , breeding, primary processing, manufacturing, distribution, until consumer use, including food. The standard for global food safety management system proposed a unified standard, and to promote global enterprises to be more simple and consistent manner HACCP.
    EU: for the printing ink applied to almost all the food packaging, but it contains heavy metals, residual solvents, volatile organic compounds, as well as a large number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other toxic and harmful chemicals to migrate through the chemical pollution of food contents, including benzene residue great harm on people could easily cause a cancer, a diseases, the EU created the largest food packaging printing ink transfer value, the provisions of food packaging materials, printing inks in the 4 – methyl-benzophenone and benzophenone the overall migration limit value must be less than 0.6 mg / kg. The current international limits on the printing ink, permitted or prohibited substances and evaluation method of containing a consensus has not been established standards, our regulations in that regard also in vacuum.
    Europe and the United States: a result of organic chemical raw material bisphenol A (BPA) may cause the human heart, liver and other diseases, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked in December 31, 2009 prior to assessing the risks of bisphenol A, the country’s states will gradually prohibition of food containers and drink containers containing the substance. Following the United States, Canada announced a ban in food packaging and contact materials, the use of bisphenol A, the French Parliament also submitted a motion to ban in food packaging and contact materials, the use of Bisphenol-A.
    The United States: will be implemented during the year 2009 “the United States 2009 Food Security Enhancement Act” stipulates that foreign exports to the U.S. food companies, including pet food production, packaging, warehousing companies must annually to the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) registration. In addition, the United States country of origin labels are mandatory requirement from March 16, 2009 starting on meat, minced beef, chicken and mutton, pork, wild and farmed fish and shellfish, perishable agricultural products (12.82 , 0.34,2.72%) (fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables), ginseng, peanuts, and other pre-packaged name of the country of origin labeling mandatory, provides for retailers and product suppliers record-keeping requirements, violations of provisions of suppliers and retailers shall be punished by a fine of up to 1000 U.S. dollars.
    Japan: Japan is the world’s most one of the countries pay attention to packaging. Japan’s “Food Sanitation Law” clearly asks, food packaging can not be too fancy to be tasteless, but when printing food packaging must use a special ink, that is, alcohol-soluble ink must be replaced by toluene solvent inks more stable, non – likely to be volatile harmful substances.
    Japan in particular, require children to color can not be too much food packaging, clamshell packaging, have a separate inner membrane. In addition, the Japanese phenomenon of fraud against the company in the country, on December 25, 2008 to further regulate the labeling the country of origin marking.
    United Kingdom: United Kingdom Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition labeling scheme is more complete visual display to require supermarkets and food enterprises to the production or sale of food products labeled more clearly the information labels, and called for more clearly marked in food calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat total, saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, sugars, dietary fiber and calcium content of nutrients and units. January 6, 2009, said British Environment Minister HilaryBenn, food companies and supermarkets must indicate the true origin of food products, the company should be clearly stated on the label on the product country of origin of the initial composition, rather than the ultimate producer.
    France: France announced since January 1, 2010 onwards, will prohibit the use of non-biodegradable plastic materials, packaged foods, agricultural products, replaced by environmentally friendly biodegradable materials completely replace. In addition, food packaging introduced a new text description requirements for food packaging to display the business name of food, while also indicating its legal name, and also provides the volume of the box must be broadly consistent with the volume of food itself may not be used beyond the excessive volume of food itself box packaging.
    Impact
    Foreign food packaging made increasingly stringent new requirements, new standards, although the objective to promote China’s exports of food and packaging industries to a more healthy, safer, more environmentally friendly direction, and gradually integrated into the international and standardized the development of track, however, due to the developed countries a high level of food safety management in the food packaging management, has produced some of the demanding requirements of the protective effect of trade restrictions and, in the objective has become more important in international food trade, a new type of technical trade barriers.