New Hygienic Standard of Packaged Water for Drinking

時間(Date) : 2015-03-23 來源(Source) : CIRS 作者(Author) : CIRS

On 24 December 2014, The National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHFPC) has published a notice (No. 21 of 2014) to approve 37 China national standards. Among of them Hygienic Standard of Packaged Water for Drinking (GB19298) were changed in great extent, and attached extensive attention. New Hygienic Standard of Packaged Water for Drinking will come into effect on 24 May 2015, and replace the Hygienic Standard of Bottle Water for Drinking (GB19298-2003) and Bottled Purified Water for Drinking (GB17323-1998).
New standard amend the description for scope of application, requirements of raw material and sensory property, physicochemical indexes and microbial indicators.
To compliant import package water for drinking to China after 24 May 2015, the operators should mention following issues:

1. Physicochemical indexes
Compare with the previous one, new standard add the limitation requirement of Carbon tetrachloride, Cyanide, Anion synthetic detergent and bromate. Meanwhile the content of arsenic, lead, cadmium and nitrite should refer to the requirements in The Limitation of Contamination in Food (GB 2762), in addition, the copper content were deleted from the supervision items. Manufactures need to focus on these new test items.

Item	Index(<)	Test method	Remark
Free chlorine/(mg/L)	0.05	GB/T 5750
Carbon tetrachloride/(mg/L)	0.002
Trichloromethane/(mg/L)	0.02
Oxygen consumption/(count as O₂) (mg /L)	2.0
Bromate/(mg/L) Trichloromethane	0.01
Volatile Phenols/(count as phenol) (mg/L)	0.002
Cyanide/( count as CN^-)(mg/L)	0.05		Only for distillation method drinking water
Anion synthetic detergent/(mg/L)	0.3		Only for distillation method drinking water
Total β radioactivity/(Bq/L)	0.5		Except for domestic water as raw material
Total α radioactivity/(Bq/L)	1		Except for domestic water as raw material

2. Microbiological indicator

New hygienic standard have referenced the international relevant standards and deleted the limitation of mould, saccharomycetes, bacterial colony number and some pathogenic bacterium (Shigella, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus). In addition list the pseudomonas aeruginosa as an opportunistic pathogen in the limitation list. Therefore there are two microbiological indicators for Packaged Water for Drinking in new hygienic standards:

Item	n	c	m	Test method
Coliform	5	0	0	GB4789.3
pseudomonas aeruginosa	5	0	0	GB/T8538
Sample and implement as GB4789.1

3. Application of additive

According to the stipulation in The Usage of Food Additives GB2760, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium chloride, potassium chloride and etc. could use to modify the taste of packaged water for drinking

Additive Name	Maximum level	Remark
Magnesium sulfate	0.05g/L
Zinc sulfate	0.0024g/L	Count as Zn
Calcium chloride	0.036g/L	Count as Ca
Potassium chloride	Use as necessary

4. Requirement of Chinese label

According to the new standard if food additive is used to modify the taste, it is necessary to label as “添加食品添加劑用于調節口味” at the neighboring of product’s name.

Reference
http://www.nhfpc.gov.cn/sps/s3594/201501/4dea856522224be0a0374a6ad31d5a52.shtml

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Contact
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