Translated English of Chinese Standard: GB2762-2017 www.chinesestandard.net Sales@ChineseStandard.net GB NATIONAL STANDARD OF THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF CHINA GB 2762-2017 National standard for food safety - Limits of contaminants in foods 食品安全国家标准食品中污染物限量 Issued on: March 17, 2017 Implemented on: September 17, 2017 Issued by: National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People s Republic of China; China Food and Drug Administration. www.chinesestandard.net Page 1 of 20
Table of Contents Foreword... 3 1 Scope... 4 2 Terms and definitions... 4 3 Application principles... 5 4 Indicator requirements... 5 Annex A Food category (name) description... 15 www.chinesestandard.net Page 2 of 20
Foreword This Standard replaces GB 2762-2012 National standard for food safety - Limits of contaminants in foods. Compared with GB 2762-2011, the main changes of this Standard are as follows: - DELETE the limit requirements for rare earth; - MODIFY the application principles; - ADD the requirements for the amount of lead in spirulina and its products; - ADJUST the requirements for cadmium limit in day lily; - ADD the limit requirements for mycotoxins in formula for special medical purpose, complementary food supplements, sports nutrition foods, pregnant women and nurse nutrition supplements; - UPDATE the standard number of test methods; - ADD the description of inorganic arsenic limit test requirements; - MODIFY Annex A. www.chinesestandard.net Page 3 of 20
National standard for food safety - Limits of contaminants in foods 1 Scope This Standard specifies the limit indicators of lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, tin, nickel, chromium, nitrite, nitrate, benzo [a] pyrene, N-dimethyl nitrosamine and chlorine-1,2-propanediol in foods. 2 Terms and definitions 2.1 Contaminants Chemical hazardous substances produced or brought by environmental pollution and are not intentionally added in foods in the process of production (including crop cultivation, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine), processing, packaging, storage, transportation, sales, eating, etc. Contaminants specified in this Standard refer to contaminants other than pesticide residues, veterinary drug residues, biological toxins and radioactive substances. 2.2 Edible parts The edible part obtained from food raw materials by mechanical means (such as grain milling, fruit peeling, nut shelling, meat boning, fish boning, shellfish shelling, etc.) to remove non-edible parts. NOTE 1: The removal of non-edible parts shall not be carried out by any non-mechanical means (e.g., crude vegetable oil refining process). NOTE 2: When producing different products with the same food raw materials, the amount of edible parts varies depending on the production process. For example, when processing oatmeal and whole wheat flour by wheats, the edible part of the calculated by 100 %; when processing wheat flour, the edible part is converted by flour yield. 2.3 Limits The maximum level of contaminants allowed in the edible parts of food raw materials and/or food products. www.chinesestandard.net Page 4 of 20
4.2 Cadmium 4.2.1 See Table 2 for limit indicators of cadmium in foods. Table 2 -- Limit indicators of cadmium in foods Limit (in Cd) Food category (name) mg/kg Cereals and their products Cereals (except unhusked rice a ) Milled cereal products (except brown rice and rice) Unhusked rice a, brown rice, rice Vegetables and their products Fresh vegetables (except leafy vegetables, beans vegetables, roots and 0.05 tubers vegetables, stems and vegetables and day lily) Leafy vegetables Beans vegetables, roots and tubers vegetables, stems vegetables (except celery) Celery, day lily Fruit and its products Fresh fruits 0.05 Edible fungi and their products Fresh edible fungi (except mushrooms and Agaricus blazei) Mushrooms Edible fungi products (except Agaricus blazei) Beans and their products Beans Nuts and seeds Peanut Meat and meat products Meat (except internal organs of livestock and poultry) Livestock and poultry liver Livestock and poultry kidney 1.0 Meat products (except liver products, kidney products) Liver products Kidney products 1.0 Aquatic animals and their products Fresh and frozen aquatic animals Fish Crustaceans Bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, echinoderms 2.0 (remove the internal organs) Aquatic products Canned fish (except anchovies, canned swordfish) www.chinesestandard.net Page 8 of 20
Packaged drinking water (except mineral water) Mineral water Special dietary foods Infant and young children formula Infant formula Follow-up infant and young children formula Infant formula for special medical purposes Complementary foods for infant and young children Cereal based complementary foods for infants and young children Canned complementary foods for infants and young children Formula for special medical purposes (except those involve in infant formula for special medical purposes) Complementary food supplements Pregnant women and nurse nutrition supplements a Applicable only to milk-based products. 0.005 mg/l (in NO ) mg/l (in NO ) 2.0 a (in powder products) 2.0 a (in powder products) 2.0 (in powder products) 2.0 c 4.0 c 2 d (in solid products) 2 a 2 c 45 mg/l (in NO ) 100 (in powder products) 100 b (in powder products) 100 (in powder products) 100 b 200 b 100 b (in solid products) 100 b 100 b b Not suitable for products added with vegetables and fruit. c Not suitable for products added with beans. d Applicable only to milk-based products (without legume ingredients). 4.8.2 Test methods: for drinks, determine according to the method specified in GB 8538; for other foods, determined according to the method specified in GB 5009.33. 4.9 Benzo [a] pyrene 4.9.1 See Table 9 for limit indicators of benzo [a] pyrene in foods. Table 9 -- Limit indicators of benzo [a] pyrene in foods Limit Food category (name) μg/kg Cereals and their products Unhusked rice a, brown rice, rice, wheat, wheat 5.0 flour, corn, cornmeal (grits, flakes) Meat and meat products Smoked, burnt, grilled meat 5.0 Aquatic animals and their products Smoked, baked aquatic products 5.0 Grease and its products 10 a The unhusked rice is in brown rice. 4.9.2 Test method: determine according to the method specified in GB 5009.27. www.chinesestandard.net Page 13 of 20
Annex A Food category (name) description A.1 See Table A.1 for food category (name) description. Table A.1 -- Food category (name) description Fresh fruit (unprocessed, surface treated, peeled or cut, frozen fruit) Berries and other small-size fruit Other fresh fruit (including sugar cane) Fruit products Canned Fruit Dried fruit Fruit and its Vinegared, oiled or salted fruit products Jam (mud) Candied fruit (including hawthorn rolls) Fermented fruit products Cooked or fried fruit Fruit desserts Other fruit products Fresh vegetables (unprocessed, surface treated, peeled or pre-cut, frozen vegetables) Brassica vegetables Leafy vegetables (including Brassica leafy vegetables) Vegetables Leguminous vegetables and their Root and tuber vegetables (e.g. potatoes, carrots, radishes, ginger, etc.) products Stem vegetables (including bean sprouts) (including Other fresh vegetables (including fruits and vegetables, bulbs and aquatic, potatoes, sprouts and bamboo shoots, day lily and other perennial vegetables) excluding Vegetable products edible Canned vegetables fungi) Pickled vegetables (e.g. soy sauced, salted, sweet and sour vegetables, etc.) Vegetable mud Fermented vegetable products Boiled or fried vegetables Other vegetable products Fresh edible fungi (unprocessed, surface treated, pre-cut, frozen edible fungi) Edible fungi and their products Mushrooms Agaricus blazei Other fresh edible fungi Edible fungus products Canned edible fungi www.chinesestandard.net Page 15 of 20
beans and root plants) Bread Baked Pastry (including moon cake) foods Cookies (e.g. sandwich biscuits, wafer biscuits, egg rolls, etc.) Other baked goods Cocoa products, chocolate Cocoa products, chocolate and chocolate products (including cocoa butter replacer and chocolate and products) chocolate Candies (including gum base candies) products and candies Ice cream Frozen Flavor ice, ice sticks drinks Edible ice Other frozen drinks Infant and young children formula Infant formula Follow-up infant and young children formula Infant formula for special medical purposes Complementary foods for infant and young children Special Cereal based complementary foods for infants and young children dietary Canned complementary foods for infants and young children foods Formula for special medical purposes (except those involve in infant formula for special medical purposes) Other formula for special medical purposes (e.g. complementary food supplements, sports nutrition foods, pregnant women and nurse nutrition supplements, etc.) Other foods Jelly (foods Puffed food other than Bee products (e.g. honey, pollen, etc.) foods Tea mentioned Dried chrysanthemum above) Kudingcha END www.chinesestandard.net Page 20 of 20