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GB 29921-2021National food safety standard - Limit of pathogen in prepackaged foods (English PDF)

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Issued by

National Health Commission; State Administration for Market Regulation

Level / Type

National · Mandatory

Issue date

August 4, 2021

Implementation date

November 22, 2021

Scope

GB 29921-2021 (National food safety standard - Limit of pathogen in prepackaged foods) is available as an English-translated PDF.

GB 29921-2021 — This Standard specifies the indicators of pathogen in prepackaged foods and their limit requirements and inspection methods. This Standard applies to prepackaged foods in the categories in Table 1, and does not apply to foods, packaged drinking water, and drinking natural mineral water that are subject to commercial aseptic requirements.

Document preview — GB 29921-2021

National Standard of the People's Republic of China

Issued by: National Health Commission; State Administration for Market Regulation

Contents

  • Foreword...3
  • 1 Scope...4
  • 2 Principles of application...4
  • 3 Indicator requirements...4
  • Appendix A Description of food category (name)...8

Foreword

This Standard replaces GB 29921-2013 "National Food Safety Standard - Limit

of Pathogen in Foods".

Compared with GB 29921-2013, the major changes of this Standard are as

follows.

-- Modify the standard's name;

-- Revise the description of "Scope";

-- Revise the description of "Principles of application";

-- Add requirements for limit of pathogen in dairy products and foods for

special dietary;

-- Modify part of the content in "Table 1 - Standard for limit of pathogen in

prepackaged foods";

-- Add "Appendix A Description of food category (name)".

National food safety standard - Limit of pathogen in

prepackaged foods

1 Scope

This Standard specifies the indicators of pathogen in prepackaged foods and

their limit requirements and inspection methods.

This Standard applies to prepackaged foods in the categories in Table 1, and

does not apply to foods, packaged drinking water, and drinking natural mineral

water that are subject to commercial aseptic requirements.

2 Principles of application

2.1 Regardless of whether the limit of pathogen is specified or not, food

producers, processors, and operators shall take control measures to reduce the

level of pathogen in food and the possibility of causing risks as much as

possible.

2.2 The collection and processing of samples shall be implemented in

accordance with GB 4789.1.

2.3 The sampling plan and inspection method shall be implemented in

accordance with Table 1.n is the number of samples that shall be collected for

the same batch of products; c is the maximum allowable number of samples

that exceed the value of m;

2.4 Appendix A is used to define the food categories to which the limit of

pathogen is applicable.

3 Indicator requirements

See Table 1 for the limit of pathogen in prepackaged foods.

Appendix A

Description of food category (name)

See Table A.1 for the description of food category (name).

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