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China Regulatory Matters is intended to update you on significant Chinese regulatory changes in the areas of food, food packaging, cosmetics, environmental, chemical control, tobacco, e-vapor, and e-cigarettes.
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12.14.22 | China Announces New Management Measures for Food-Related Products |
11.29.22 | Singapore Updates Guidelines for the Safety Assessment of Novel Foods |
11.23.22 | BREAKING NEWS: U.S. FDA Completes First Pre-Market Consultation for Food Made by Cultured Animal Cells |
09.27.22 | Health Foods in China: New Rules Approving Functional Claims |
09.22.22 | Use of Food Additives to Face New Requirements in China |
06.06.22 | Manufacturing E-Cigarettes in China: How to Obtain the Manufacturer License |
05.09.22 | China Publishes Final GB Standard on E-Cigarettes: The Basis for Product Compliance |
05.06.22 | Group Standards: An Often Overlooked Regulatory Pathway to Export Food to China |
03.17.22 | Breaking News – China Finalizes Management Rules for E-Cigarettes |
03.07.22 | China Food Laws Year in Review 2021 - From the Year of the Ox to the Year of the Tiger |
02.10.22 | China Food Packaging Year-in-Review: Looking Back on the Ox and Forward to the Tiger |
12.15.21 | Further Guidance on Overseas Food Facility Registration Published by China Customs Authority |
12.07.21 | China Brings E-Cigarettes Under Its Tobacco Monopoly Law: Will This Reshape the Global Industry? |
11.09.21 | China Releases Further Details on Overseas Food Facility Registration |
10.29.21 | Breaking News: China Publishes Key GB Standards on Food Packaging for Public Comments |
10.21.21 | China’s Overseas Food Facility Registration: Some Deadlines You Need to Know About |
09.13.21 | China Takes the Air Out of Excessive Packaging |
09.03.21 | Japan is Contemplating the Future of Cell-based Meats |
04.30.21 | Breaking News: China Imposes New Registration Requirements for All Foreign Food Companies |
03.30.21 | Asia's First Animal-Free Dairy Ice Cream: Another Alternative Protein Breakthrough |
03.10.21 | China Food Law Year in Review: Reflecting on the Year of Rat and Welcoming the Year of Ox! |
02.25.21 | Let's Bring in the Ox and Put the Rat Out to Pasture: Food Packaging Year in Review |
02.01.21 | Cultured Meat: Shaping the Future of Foods |
11.03.20 | China Announces Transition Document for Amended New Chemical Regulation |
10.19.20 | Breaking News: China Announces Draft GB Standards Related to Food Contact Materials & Articles |
10.07.20 | China Revamps Food Nutrition Labeling Regulations |
08.14.20 | More Make-Up Applied to China's Management of Cosmetics: Here's How It Looks |
05.13.20 | Breaking News: China Publishes Amended New Chemical Regulation |
05.08.20 | Plant-Based Foods: Exciting Technology, But Don't Overlook the Regulatory Considerations |
04.14.20 | Getting to Know the U.S.-China Trade Agreement: Obtaining a Chinese Standard for an Imported Food |
03.25.20 | China's Food Laws: Looking Back on 2019, the Year of the Pig |
01.23.20 | Are You Ready for China's New Food Labeling Requirements? |
12.06.19 | Breaking News: China Proposes New Facility Registration Requirements for Overseas Food Producers |
11.05.19 | Breaking News: China Publishes Long-Awaited Food Safety Law Implementation Regulation |
08.20.19 | Asia Regulatory Matters: Japan Notifies WTO of its New Positive List for Plastic Food-Contact Materials |
08.07.19 | China is Drafting First E-Cigarette Standard |
05.27.19 | China Releases Draft Adhesives Standard for Food-Contact Materials |
03.21.19 | From The Year of the Dog to The Year of the Pig: China's Food and Food Packaging Laws Year-in-Review |
09.10.18 | Exporting Food to China: Tariffs Are Just Part of The Problem |
08.21.18 | Barking News: China Implements New Pet Feed Regulations |
03.22.18 | China's National People's Congress Passes Reshuffle Plan to Establish New Food and Food-Related Agencies |
03.05.18 | Zai Jian Rooster, Ni Hao Dog: Keller and Heckman's Year in Review of China's Food and Food Packaging Laws |
01.19.18 | China's Food Additives Standard Will Soon Have Some Flavorful and Unflavorful Changes |
10.20.17 | Breaking News: Two Key China Food Packaging Standards Now Take Effect |
09.26.17 | Breaking News: AQSIQ Gives Food Industry Two-Year Extension on Imported Foods Certification Requirement |
09.21.17 | CFDA Submits to WTO the Third Revised Draft Regulation on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law |
06.02.17 | China's CFSA Published Implementation Guidance of GB 9685-2016 |
05.18.17 | Handling Professional Consumers: A New Challenge to Doing Business in China |
02.24.17 | China Food Law: Year in Review 2016 - Out with the Monkey, In with the Rooster: A look back and a look ahead on China's Food Safety System |
11.02.16 | Recalls Expanding to China After Consumer and Media Complaints |
10.28.16 | Last Chance to Comment on China's Implementing Regulation of the Food Safety Law |
09.29.16 | China's General Rules for Food Production Licensing Review Take Effect |
06.29.16 | CFDA Measures on Foods for Special Medical Purposes Take Effect |
06.15.16 | China's NHFPC Publishes Approvals for 23 Food Packaging Materials |
05.17.16 | Regulatory Landscape of Cross-Border E-Commerce in China Enters a New Spring |
04.27.16 | Registration of Foreign Facilities Producing Food and Food Packaging Sold in Korea |
04.21.16 | FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA): A Foreign Suppliers Guide |
03.02.16 | Beware the Ides of March: Consumer Products and the Challenges of Professional Consumers in China |
02.05.16 | China Food Law: Year in Review 2015 Part II |
01.28.16 | China Food Law: Year in Review 2015 Part I |
01.22.16 | CFDA Announces Draft Regulation to Implement China's New Food Safety Law (Part II) |
12.21.15 | CFDA Announces Draft Regulation to Implement China's New Food Safety Law (Part I) |
12.10.15 | China Moves to Finalize List of Raw Materials for Food Use Detergents |
10.09.15 | China's NHFPC Releases Key Food Packaging Standards |
10.01.15 | China's Food Safety Law Takes Effect Today: Are You Ready? |
06.24.15 | China Notifies WTO of Draft General Safety Standard for Food-Contact Materials |
05.29.15 | China's Amended GB 2760 Food Additive Standard Enters into Force |
04.28.15 | China Passes Sweeping Amendment to Food Safety Law: The Most Stringent To Date |
04.20.15 | China Food Law: Year in Review 2014 |