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New meat is coming

Since April 22 Starbucks is serving, in its stores in China, prepackaged meals with plant-based meat ingredients. In particular, we

2019 ended with a “roar” from the food regulator. New draft GB 7718 (the fundamental standard for labeling of pre-packaged

Product categorization is indeed the cornerstone of the compliance assessment of every food product – whether imported into China or

China is in the process of updating two crucial standards – the cornerstone of its food labeling regulation. Two non-final

On November 2018 the new draft GB 7718 was released for public comments. This is a key regulation for food

On August 6, 2018, CAPPMA (China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Alliance) issued a rather controversial draft standard about “Salmon

The Implementing Regulation of the Food Safety law is undergoing a possible – final – review. After the release of

In a highly humanized, food-safety plagued, severely polluted environment as China is, no wonder that the appeal for natural food

It appears nowadays clear that Chinese authorities are moving towards strict application of food safety provisions. Recently, Shanghai was the