(1) The name of a food must be a special name indicating the true attributes of the food, and it is not allowed to use names that cause misunderstanding or confusion among consumers.
(2) The name and address of the producer shall be consistent with the business license. If it is a subsidiary, branch, commissioned processing or joint production of the group, it shall be identified according to the requirements of the Product Identification and Labeling Regulations.
(3) The product standard number shall indicate the product standard code and number, and the marked product standard shall be legal and effective.
(4) Inspection certificate means that qualified products should be accompanied by product quality inspection certificate (which can be qualified seals, seals, labels, etc. ).
(5) The production date (packaging date), shelf life (shelf life) or expiration date shall be marked in a prominent position, with clear specifications and in line with the requirements of contrasting colors; If the food requires specific storage conditions, it must be indicated.
(6) The ingredient list must be true and arranged one by one in descending order of adding amount.
(7) Quantitative packaged food should be marked with net content, and solid and liquid substances should be marked with solid content.
(8) The food subject to market access shall be affixed with QS (Food Quality and Safety Market Access) mark and food production license number as required; Products subject to the production license management of industrial products shall be marked with the production license mark and number as required.
(9) If grading is stipulated in the product standard, the quality (quality) grade shall be indicated.
(10) irradiated food and irradiated ingredients shall be indicated in the label.
(1 1) If the corresponding product standard has special provisions on labeling, it shall be truthfully labeled as required.
You can choose the content of the label.
The national standard "General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods" (GB77 18) stipulates that food labels can be marked with the following contents:
(1) drinks and wines with alcohol content 10% or above; Vinegar; Edible salt; Solid sugar can be exempted from labeling the shelf life.
(2) When the maximum surface area of the package or packaging container is less than 10cm2, only the product name, net content, name and address of the manufacturer (or distributor) may be indicated. The name of the country of origin (Hongkong, China, Macau, China and Taiwan Province Province) and the name and address of the legally registered agent, importer or distributor in China shall be indicated when importing prepackaged foods; Exempt the name and address of the manufacturer.
(3) The batch number and eating method of food can be marked. Non-special nutritional dietary foods can be labeled with energy and nutrients.
Label identifying shelf life and shelf life
According to GB77 18, food enterprises should clearly indicate the production date (or packaging date) and shelf life of prepackaged foods, and may also attach a shelf life. If the date is indicated by "see part of the package", the specific part of the package should be indicated. Do not paste, print or tamper with the date stamp. Dates should be marked in the order of year, month and day. Such as 20040 1 15 (separated by interval characters); 20040 1 15 (without separator); 2004-0 1- 15 (separated by hyphens); June 2004 65438+1October 65438+May. The year number should generally be marked with 4 digits; Small packaged foods that are difficult to label with 4 digits can be labeled with 2 digits.
The shelf life or storage period shall be indicated in one of the following ways:
(1) is used for shelf life.
① "It is best to eat before" or "It is best to drink before";
② Before the best consumption, before the best consumption or before the best drinking;
③ "Best before this date", "Best to eat before this date" or "Best to drink before this date";
④ "Shelf life (to)".
⑤ The shelf life is ×× months [×× days (days), × years].
(2) for the shelf life
① "Before eating" or "Before drinking";
② "Eat before this date" or "Drink before this date";
③ "Shelf life (to)".
(4) "Shelf life ×× months" [×× days (days), × years].
Different foods have different shelf life.
The former Light Industry Federation stipulated the shelf life of some foods (shelf life is specially marked), and the main contents are as follows:
Milk powder: tinplate sealed with nitrogen for 24 months, non-nitrogen packaging 12 months, glass bottle for 9 months and bagged for 6 months; Sweet condensed milk, canned for 9 months and bottled in glass for 3 months.
(2) Malt milk extract: tin cans 12 months, glass bottles for 9 months and plastic bags for 4 months.
(3) Candy: 3 months in the first and fourth quarters and 2 months in the second and third quarters (rainy season 1 month).
(4) Shelf life of white cakes: 4 months for those produced in the first and fourth quarters and 20 days for those produced in the second and third quarters. Cake: 0/0 day in the first quarter, 7 days in the second and third quarters, and 0/5 days in the fourth quarter. Moon cakes: first and fourth quarters 1 month, second and third quarters 15 days. The gift cake lasts for 3 ~ 4 days.
(5) Cookies: canned in iron, 70 days in the first and fourth quarters, and 35 days in the second and third quarters; Boxed and bagged, 50 days in the first and fourth quarters, and 30 days in the second and third quarters; In bulk, it takes 40 days for production in the first and fourth quarters and 20 days for production in the second and third quarters. Bread: 5 ~ 7 days in the first and fourth quarters, and 3 ~ 4 days in the second and third quarters.
(6) canning: fish and poultry cans and glass bottles for 2 years; Canned fruits and vegetables, canned in iron and bottled in glass 15 months; Fried dried fruit, canned tomato sauce, glass bottle 1 year.
(7) Juice soda, fruity soda and cola soda: bottled in glass for 3 months and canned for 6 months; Pop cans, fruit juice in glass bottles and vegetable juice drinks (including original fruit juice or syrup made by adding sugar and sour agent to spices extracted from natural fruits) are 6 months.
(8) Beer: 1 1 ~ 12 degree bottled and canned mature beer, with high quality for 4 months and ordinary for 2 months; 14 degree beer is 3 months; 10.5 degree cooked beer is 50 days; The shelf life of bottled draft beer is 7 days; Canned and barreled draft beer for at least 3 days.
(nine) wine and fruit wine for 6 months; Sparkling wine for 3 months; Dew wine for 6 months; Bottled yellow wine is tentatively set for 3 months.
(10) Instant noodles: Instant noodles packed in plastic bags are 3 months old.
(1 1) chocolate: chocolate sandwich for 3 months; Pure chocolate is 6 months.
(12) Edible vegetable oil1February.
Some food standards also stipulate the shelf life of food. For example, soy sauce standards GB 18 186, SB 10336, vinegar standards GB 18 187, SB 10337 stipulate that "the shelf life of bottled products shall not be less than1. The shelf life of bagged products shall not be less than 6 months. " GB 17323, the standard of Bottled Drinking Pure Water, stipulates that "the packaging of less than 3000ml should be no less than 12 months, and the packaging of large bottles larger than 3000ml should be no less than 1 month". GB8537, the standard of Drinking Natural Mineral Water, stipulates that "the shelf life of disposable packaged bottled products is not less than 1 year, and the shelf life of non-disposable packaged barreled products (before opening the lid) is not less than 3 months".
The above provisions on the shelf life of some foods are the minimum period requirements, which actually means that there is only a lower limit and no upper limit. Enterprises can completely determine the shelf life not lower than the national or industry standards according to their own technical level, packaging (container) performance and packaging technology. With the technological progress of China food industry, some food manufacturers explicitly guarantee the long shelf life in product packaging. For example, some food factories set the shelf life of tinplate barreled biscuits as 12 months. When consumers buy this kind of food, they can choose according to the shelf life explicitly guaranteed by the manufacturer, and any quality problems occurring during this period shall be borne by the manufacturer.
Food labels should be easy to identify.
(1) All contents of food labels shall comply with the provisions of national laws and regulations and the provisions of corresponding product standards.
(2) All contents of food labels should be clear, eye-catching and lasting; It should be easy for consumers to identify and read when buying.
(3) All contents of food labels should be easy to understand, accurate and have scientific basis; Do not label feudal superstition, yellow, belittle other foods or violate scientific nutrition common sense.
(4) All contents of food labels shall not introduce food with false, misleading or deceptive words and graphics; You may not mislead consumers by using font size or color difference.
(5) All contents of food labels shall not use directly or indirectly suggestive language, graphics or symbols, so that consumers may confuse the purchased food or a certain attribute of food with another product.
(6) The label of food shall not be separated from the package (container).
(7) The contents of food labels should use standardized Chinese characters, but registered trademarks are not included. Pinyin or minority languages can be used at the same time, but not larger than the corresponding Chinese characters. Foreign languages can be used at the same time, but there should be a corresponding relationship with Chinese characters (except the manufacturer and address of imported food, the name and address of foreign distributors, and the website). All foreign languages shall not be larger than the corresponding Chinese characters (except foreign registered trademarks).
(8) When the maximum surface area of the package or packaging container is greater than 20cm2, the height of the characters, symbols and numbers in the compulsory identification content shall not be less than1.8mm..
(9) If all or part of the compulsory labeling contents on the inner package or container can be clearly identified through the outer package, the corresponding contents may not be repeatedly labeled on the outer package.
(10) If there is an outer package (or large package) outside the inner package (or container) that can be directly delivered to consumers, only the mandatory labeling content can be marked on the outer package (or large package).
The content of special nutrients should be indicated.
In addition to the general labeling contents, special nutritious foods should also be labeled with the following contents in accordance with the General Rules for Labeling Special Diets in prepackaged foods (GB 13432):
(1) Edible method and suitable crowd: If it is suitable for children and middle-aged and elderly people, please indicate the daily dosage of each meal.
(2) (energy) heat: expressed in KJ or j.
(3) Nutrients: The contents of protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals and trace elements in food should be indicated.
(4) Storage guide: If the nutritional value or sensory quality of food after opening is related to storage, the storage conditions shall be indicated. If it cannot be stored in the original packaging container after opening, it should be reminded.
(5) Dietary methods and suitable people. Such as a daily or dietary dose.
Food labels must not imply efficacy.
The General Rules for the Labeling of prepackaged foods for Special Diets (GB 13432) stipulates that the following contents shall not be marked on foods for special nutritional diets:
(1) A certain disease can be prevented, alleviated, treated or cured.
(2) Rejuvenation, longevity, black hair, tooth loss and rehabilitation, anti-cancer treatment or other similar terms.
(3) indicate the curative effect and health care function before and after the food name, drug name or drug graphic and name (except for dual-purpose substances for medicine and food).
Special requirements for irradiated food labels
Foods treated with ionizing radiation or ionizing energy must be marked with "irradiated food" near the name of the food. Any composition treated by ionizing radiation or ionizing energy must be indicated in the composition list.
For irradiated food, in addition to labeling the food, it is also necessary to label the irradiated food on the food sold. The label is round, with "irradiated food" in Chinese and "irradiated food" in English on the bottom.
How to label the production name of a branch company
According to the former State Bureau of Technical Supervision and GB77 18 "Provisions on Product Identification and Labeling", a group company or its subsidiaries that independently bear legal responsibilities according to law shall mark their respective names and addresses on the products they produce; A branch or production base of a group company that cannot independently bear legal liability according to law may indicate the name and address of the group company and its branch or production base, or may only indicate the name and address of the group company; Enterprises that cooperate with each other according to the contract or agreement but operate independently shall indicate the names and addresses of their respective producers on the products they produce; If the entrusted enterprise processes products for the principal and is not responsible for external sales, it shall indicate the name and address of the principal on the products.