Australia raises food import threshold.

Original title: Australia raised the threshold for food imports
(reporter Du Jinming correspondent Lu Lin Makang Yu Dongbo) since May, the Australian authorities have issued new regulations on food allergens and risk management regulations for imported food, and continuously improve the threshold for food access.
inspection and quarantine department sources said that the Australian Ministry of Agriculture and Hydro resources issued a circular (IFN08-2017) in early May, requiring food importers to ensure the food safety of imports at the same time, to ensure that the relevant food sensitive raw accurate labeling, and in line with the ANZ Codex Alimentarius food sensitivity original mandatory labeling requirements. In view of the serious circumstances in which allergens can cause death to allergic consumers, the ANZ Code of Food Standards specifically provides for the labelling of allergenic ingredients in food, and when food ingredients or food processing additives contain allergenic ingredients, the ingredients must be labeled in food labels. The ANZ standard defines allergenic ingredients as peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, sesame seeds, fish and shellfish, beans and wheat, and feathered beans. For Chinese food exporters, not meeting Australia's requirements for the management of the original label will affect export trade.
the end of May, Australia also issued a G/SPS/N/AUS/424 circular to revise the risk management regulations for imported food.
as a large food import and export country, Australia has always attached great importance to food safety issues, and has promulgated the Import Food Management Act, Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Regulations, Import Food Control Act and other regulations. It is understood that Australia's food import and export by the Ministry of Agricultural And Hydro resources supervision, imported food according to the degree of risk of different management. Mainly divided into three categories of inspection, respectively, risk food, supervised food, compliance agreement food category. Risk food category refers to food products with potential microbial and chemical hazards inspected by the Food Standards Agency of Australia and New Zealand, supervised food category refers to food with low risk to human health, and food category of compliance agreement refers to food import compliance agreement signed between importers and the Ministry of Agricultural Hydro resources. The quarantine method and inspection frequency of each type of food are different.
is an important target market for Ningbo's food exports and one of the countries with a high degree of protection for the food trade. According to statistics, from January to April 2017, Ningbo exported more than 300 batches of Australian food, more than 4 million U.S. dollars, the main products are canned ketchup, honey, kitchen wine, aquatic products and so on. To this end, the inspection and quarantine department reminds the relevant food export enterprises in Australia, should do a good job in the whole process of management, combined with the main characteristics of export food to strengthen risk assessment, combing the relevant risk points, improve the relevance and effectiveness;