SPS - Sanitary or phytosanitary measure - Any measure applied:
To protect animal or plant life or health within the territory of the Member from risks arising from the entry, establishment or spread of pests, diseases, disease-carrying organisms or disease-causing organisms, risks arising from additives, contaminants, toxins or disease-causing organisms in foods, beverages or feedstuffs, risks arising from diseases carried by animals, plants or products thereof, or from the entry, establishment or spread of pests and to prevent or limit other damage within the territory of the Member from the entry, establishment or spread of pests.
| S.No. | Date | Notifying Member | Region Country | Product Covered | Brief | Notification | Final Date of Comment |
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| 1 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food | This standard specifies the scope of application, terminology and definitions, site selection and plant environment, plant and workshop, facilities and equipment, hygiene management, food raw materials, food additives and food-related products, food safety control, inspection, storage and transportation of food, product recall management, training, management system, basic requirements and management criteria for personnel, records and document management. The existing contents in the National Food Safety Standard General Hygiene Specification for Food Production (GB 14881-2013) were directly quoted, and the special technological requirements for the production of compound seasonings were specified. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1351 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 2 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Copper sulfate | This standard is applicable to the food additive copper sulfate pentahydrate produced by the reaction of copper oxide and sulfuric acid, as well as anhydrous copper sulfate that has been dried to remove crystal water. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1339 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 3 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Microcrystalline cellulose | This standard is applicable to food additive Microcrystalline cellulose, which is made from fiber plant raw materials and inorganic acid pounded into pulp to make α-cellulose, and then processed to make the cellulose partially depolymerized, and then removed the amorphous part and purified. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1346 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 4 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive L-alanine | This standard applies to the food additive L-Alanine produced from L-Aspartic Acid (also known as L-Asparaginic Acid or L-Aspartate) via enzymatic methods, or from starch or sugar-based raw materials via fermentation, followed by extraction and purification. This standard also applies to L-Alanine used as a food nutrient fortifier.Note: L-aspartic acid is also known as L-aspartate or L-aminosuccinic acid.The standard mainly specifies the technical requirements and test methods for L-alanine. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1349 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 5 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Lactic acid | This standard applies to food additive lactic acid made from starch or sugar through fermentation with Lactobacillus or Rhizopus oryzae. It specifies the technical requirements and testing methods for the food additive lactic acid. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1345 | 04 Nov 2025 |
| 6 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Glycine | This standard applies to food additive aminoacetic acid (glycine) obtained from industrial glycine by ammoniation process of monochloroacetic acid, then purified by dissolving in water, decolorized with activated carbon and recrystallized; or obtained from the sodium glycinate produced by the ammoniation and alkaline hydrolysis of hydroxyacetonitrile, followed by processes of ion exchange and membrane decolorization. This standard also applies to the food nutrition fortifier glycine. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1342 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 7 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive pectins | This standard applies to food additive pectins obtained from the extraction and purification of raw materials such as fruit peels or residues of fruits (including pomelo, lemon, citrus, and apple), sunflower plates, or other appropriate edible plants. The extraction solvents used are ethanol and isopropanol. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1348 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 8 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additives lycopene (synthetic) | This standard applies to food additives lycopene produced from 3,7,11-trimethyl-2,4,6,10-dodecatetraenyl-triphenylphosphonium salt with 2,7-dimethylocta-2,4,6-trienedial as starting materials or intermediates, through Wittig condensation reaction, obtained by purification and crystallization. This standard specifies the technical requirements and determination methods for the food additives lycopene (synthetic). | G/SPS/N/CHN/1340 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 9 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Meat and meat products (ICS code: 67.120.10) | National Food Safety Standard of the P.R.C.: Hygienic standard for the production of pickled and cured meat products | G/SPS/N/CHN/1352 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 10 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Gelatin | This standard applies to gelatin, a food additive produced from animal bones, skin, tendons, and scales through moderate hydrolysis. It specifies the technical requirements and test methods for Gelatin. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1344 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 11 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive L-Arginine | This standard applies to the food additive L-arginine, which is produced from starch or sugars as raw materials through fermentation, extraction, and refinement. This standard also applies to the food nutrient fortifier L-arginine. This mainly specifies the technical requirements and testing methods for L-arginine. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1341 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 12 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Ascorbyl palmitate | This standard is applicable to the food additive ascorbyl palmitate, which is prepared by reacting palmitic acid with thionyl chloride to obtain palmitoyl chloride, followed by a reaction with ascorbic acid, or prepared by enzymatic catalysis using palmitic acid (or ethyl palmitate) and ascorbic acid as raw materials. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1343 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 13 | 04 Sep 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive Tomato red | This standard applies to Food additive Tomato Red, obtained by supercritical fluid (carbon dioxide) or solvents extraction, prepared with tomatoes (Lycopersicon) or its products used as raw materials. Only the following solvent may be used: n-hexane, ethyl acetate, solvent for vegetable oils extraction, acetone, ethanol. This standard modifies the scope, the method for testing the total lycopene, the method for testing residual solvents and the description of commercial products. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1347 | 03 Nov 2025 |
| 14 | 29 Aug 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Modified milk | Based on document G/SPS/N/CHN/1287 notified on 25 October 2023, the standard has: 1. Adds requirement "except for flavored condensed milk" for concentrated milk ingredients; 2. Removes the requirement of allowing fat to rise on top in sensory requirements; 3. Modifies the description of milk powder production and reconstituted milk labeling; 4. Adds regulations for liquid products made from raw milk with only lactase added, clarifying that standards can be applied according to their production process. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1287/Add.1 | 28 Oct 2025 |
| 15 | 28 Aug 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive vanillin | This standard is applicable to vanillin, a food additive made primarily from vanillin through chemical reactions. The physical and chemical indicators required for food additive vanillin is determined by conducting sampling analysis and testing on the vanillin currently sold in the domestic market. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1336 | 27 Oct 2025 |
| 16 | 28 Aug 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive L-sodium malate | This standard is applicable to L-sodium malate which is prepared by reaction of l-malic acid and sodium carbonate after crystallization and drying. The technical requirements and test methods of L-sodium malate are mainly stipulated. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1337 | 27 Oct 2025 |
| 17 | 28 Aug 2025 | China | All Trading Partner | Food additive | This standard applies to label of food additive (including food nutrient fortifier). It is not applicable for label of storage and transportation packaging to provide protection for food additives during storage and transportation. | G/SPS/N/CHN/1329 | 27 Oct 2025 |
| Source: wto.org Note:-For Earlier SPS/TBT Notifications May Kindly Refer to eping |
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