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Notifying Member: China

If applicable, name of local government involved:  

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Agency responsible: National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (NHFPC)

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Food additive Sodium hydroxide

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Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]    All trading partners  

[ ]      Specific regions or countries:  

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Title of the notified document: National Food Safety Standard: Food additive Sodium hydroxide  Language(s): Chinese  Number of pages: 8

http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/sps/CHN/15_0313_00_x.pdf

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Description of content: This standard applies to food additive sodium hydroxide. It specifies the technical requirements and testing methods for food additive sodium hydroxide.

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Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.  

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[X]    Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard or related text) CAC: The specification of  Sodium hydroxide prepared at JECFA (2006)

[ ]      World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number)  

[ ]      International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  

[ ]      None

Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard? 

[ ] Yes   [X] No

If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard: The different indexes of this standard are as follow: In this standard, the total alkali content as sodium hydroxide (NaOH)(w): as solid 98.0%-100.5% or as liquid, 98.0%-103.5%; sodium carbonate (Na2CO3)(w) ≤ 2.0%; the content of arsenic (As) ≤ 3 mg/kg; the content of heavy metals (Pb) ≤ 5 mg/kg; the content of mercury (hg) ≤ 0.1 mg/kg. This standard is consistent with the actual condition of Chinese products.

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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: None  

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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

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Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

[ ]      Trade facilitating measure  

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Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 21 March 2015

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e?mail address (if available) of other body:  

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Text(s) available from: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e?mail address (if available) of other body: