GB/T Translated English of Chinese Standard: GB/T NATIONAL STANDARD OF THE

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1 Translated English of Chinese Standard: GB/T GB NATIONAL STANDARD OF THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ICS X 50 GB/T Replacing GB General Standard for Beverage 饮料通则 Issued on: January 4, 2015 Implemented on: April 1, 2016 Issued by: General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China; Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China. Page 1 of 16

2 Table of Contents Foreword Scope Normative References Terms and Definitions Classification Naming Technical Requirements Food Safety Requirement Labeling and Claim Transportation and Storage Consumer s Identification Requirements for Bottled Water Annex A Page 2 of 16

3 Foreword This Standard is drafted in accordance with the rules given in GB/T This Standard replaces GB General Standard for Beverage and the No. 1 modification list. Compared with GB , the main changes of this Standard are as follows: -- Modify the names and orders of beverage classification; -- Delete or adjust the sub-classification and definition of some beverage classification; -- Modify the expression form of indicators requirements in Table 1 Basic Technical Requirement. This Standard was proposed by China Beverage Industry Association. This Standard shall be under the jurisdiction of National Beverage Standardization Technical Committee. Drafting organizations of this Standard: Technical Work Committee of China Beverage Industry Association, the Coca-Cola Company (Shanghai), Tingyi Holding Corporation (China), Wahaha Group, Nongfu Spring, Beijing Huiyuan Group, PepsiCo, Uni-President Investment Ltd. (China), Sichuan Bluesword Beverage Group, China Resources C estbon Beverage (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., Nestle (China) Co., Ltd., RedBull Vitamin Beverage Co., Ltd., Vitasoy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Robust (Guangdong) Food and Beverage Co., Ltd., Hebei Chengde Lolo Company Ltd. and SDIC Zhonglu Fruit Juice Co., Ltd. Main drafters of this Standard: Li Yu nan, Yang Yonglan, Zhang Junyan, Luo Zhigang, Zhai Penggui, Zhou Li, Li Shaozhen, Cheng Mian, Huang Yingping, Zou Zongfeng, Ren Li, Tao Hong, Wu Zhenjun, Yuan Jie, Wen Wanlong, Wang Xuchang and Leng Chuanzhu. The previous editions that are replaced by this Standard are as follows: -- GB , GB and GB Page 3 of 16

4 General Standard for Beverage 1 Scope This Standard specifies the beverage s terms, definitions, classification, naming, technical requirements, label, claim, transportation, storage and consumer s identification requirements for bottled water. This Standard is applicable to beverage s production and research-development, as well as the formulation of beverage product standards and other standards that are relevant to beverage. This Standard is not applicable to drinking medicine. 2 Normative References The following documents are essential to the application of this document. For the dated documents, only the versions with the dates indicated are applicable to this document; for the undated documents, only the latest version (including all the amendments) are applicable to this document. GB 2760 National Food Safety Standard - Food Additive Usage Standard GB 7718 National food safety standards - General Principles of pre-packaged food labels GB 8537 Drinking Natural Mineral Water GB/T Carbonated Beverages GB National food safety standards - Standard for the use of nutritional fortification substances in foods GB Sports Beverage GB Bottled Purified Water for Drinking GB/T Milk Beverages GB/T Tea Beverages Page 4 of 16

5 GB National food safety standards of pre-packaged food nutrition labels - General GB/T Solid Beverages GB/T Coffee Based Beverages GB/T Plant Protein Beverage - Soymilk and Soymilk Beverage GB/T Fruit & Vegetable Juices and Fruit & Vegetable Beverage (Nectars) GB/T Plant Protein Beverage - Walnut Beverage GB/T Botanical Beverage QB/T 2300 Plant Protein Beverage - Coconut Meat Juice and Reconstituted Coconut Meat Juice QB/T 2438 Plant Protein Beverage - Almond Juice QB/T 2439 Plant Protein Beverage - Peanut Beverage QB/T 4068 Tea Concentrates for Food Industry QB/T 4221 Cereal Beverage QB/T 4222 Mixed Protein Beverage 3 Terms and Definitions The following terms and definitions are applicable to this Standard. 3.1 Beverage; drinks The drinking product which is quantitatively packed for direct drinking or diluted with water to a certain ratio for drinking; its ethanol content (mass fraction) is no more than 0.5%. It can also be beverage syrup or in solid state. 3.2 Beverage Syrup It is a kind of drinking product that is processed and based on food s raw and auxiliary material and (or) food additives; it can only be drunk after diluted by water to a certain ratio OR adding carbon dioxide after diluted. Page 5 of 16

6 Using fruit or vegetable as raw material, processed with physical approaches (mechanical method, water extraction); it is the juice or puree product that can be fermented but not fermented, or the juice or puree product that is recovered by ADDING the equivalentamount of water that was removed during processing INTO the concentrated fruit/vegetable juice (puree), such as originally extracted juice (non-reconstituted juice), reconstituted juice, vegetable juice, fruit/vegetable puree and mixed fruit & vegetable juice (puree) Concentrated fruit/vegetable juice (puree) Using fruit or vegetable as raw material, processed with physical approaches, the fruit juice (puree) or vegetable juice (puree) products are produced by removing a certain amount of water. After adding the equivalent-amount of water that was removed during the processing, it possesses the due features of fruit juice (puree) or vegetable juice (puree). The PRODUCT that contains no less than two types of concentrated fruit juice (puree), or concentrated vegetable juice (puree), or concentrated fruit juice (puree) and concentrated vegetable juice (puree) IS DEEMED as the mixed concentrated fruit/vegetable juice (puree) Fruit/vegetable juice (puree) beverage The product that is produced by using fruit juice (puree) or vegetable juice (puree) as raw material, adding or not adding other food s raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additives, such as vegetable juice beverage, fruit flesh (puree) beverage, mixed fruit/vegetable beverage puree, fermented fruit/vegetable beverage, and fruit beverage. 4.3 Protein beverage The liquid beverage that uses milk or milk product, or other edible protein from animals, or plant product, seed, kernel with a certain amount of protein as the raw material, adding or not adding other food raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additive; it is processed or fermented Milk beverage The product that uses milk or milk product as raw material, adding or not adding other food raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additive, it is processed or fermented, such as formulated milk beverage, fermented milk beverage and lactobacillus beverage Plant protein beverage The product that uses one or multiple kind(s) of plant product, seed or kernel with a certain amount of protein as raw material, adding or not adding other food raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additive, it is processed or fermented, such as soymilk, soybean Page 7 of 16

7 4.5.4 Electrolyte beverage The product that supplements mineral substance and other nutritional substance to the body, provides electrolyte and water for body metabolism Other special usage beverage Other special usage beverages that are excluded from ~ Flavored beverage The liquid beverage that uses one or more than one types of substance, such as sugar (including edible sugar and starch sugar) and (or) sweetening agent, acidity regulator, edible essence as the main approach, it is processed or fermented, such as tea beverage, fruit-flavored beverage, milk-flavored beverage, coffee-flavored beverage, flavored water beverage and other flavored beverages. NOTE: The flavored beverage without color modulation process and sugar (including edible sugar and starch sugar) ARE DEEMED as flavored water beverage, such as soda beverage, peppermint water beverage and rose water beverage. 4.7 Tea beverage The liquid beverage that uses tea or tea water extract or tea concentrated solution, tea powder (including instant tea-powder, grinding tea-powder) or fresh tea leaf as raw materials, adding or not adding other food raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additive, it is a processed liquid beverage, such as original tea (tea soup)/pure tea beverage, concentrated tea solution, tea beverage, fruit juice and tea beverage, milky tea beverage, mixed tea beverage and other tea beverage. 4.8 Coffee beverage The liquid beverage that uses coffee bean and (or) coffee product (grinding coffee powder, coffee water extract or concentrated solution, instant coffee) as raw materials, adding or not adding food raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additives such as sugar (edible sugar. starch sugar), milk and (or) milk product, resin powder, it is a processed liquid beverage, such as espresso beverage, coffee beverage, decaffeinated coffee beverage and decaffeinated espresso beverage. 4.9 Botanical beverage The liquid beverage that uses plant or plant extract as raw material, adding or not adding other food raw and auxiliary materials and (or) food additives, it is a liquid beverage through processing or fermentation, such as cocoa beverage, cereal beverage, herbal beverage, edible fungi beverage, algae beverage and other botanical beverage excluded from fruit and vegetable juice and beverage, tea beverages and coffee beverages. Page 9 of 16

8 9.2 The product shall not be mixed, transported and stored with toxic, harmful, smelled, volatile and corrosive products. 9.3 It shall be stored in the clean, dry and ventilated warehouse; keep away from light, pest and mice. 9.4 The sealing part shall not be immersed in water, so as to prevent contamination. 10 Consumer s Identification Requirements for Bottled Water On the package of bottled water of which the volume is less than 600 ml, it is encouraged to use the methods such as printing code, printing, connecting, sticking, spraying TO INDICATE the numbers, text, graphics and symbols, or marking coating-layer and marking area etc., so that the consumers can identify the product he/she drinks. Page 12 of 16

9 Other beverage Coffee solid beverage Botanical solid beverage Solid beverage for special usage Other solid beverages END Page 16 of 16