GB/T 23492-2022General quality for bacon (English PDF)
培根质量通则
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Issued by
SAMR; SAC
Level / Type
National · Recommended
Issue date
December 30, 2022
Implementation date
July 1, 2024
Scope
GB/T 23492-2022 is the English-translated version of 培根质量通则.
GB/T 23492-2022 sets the quality rules for bacon, a meat product made from a single kind of pork, duck, chicken or beef that is trimmed and then, as the recipe requires, ground, injected, tumbled, cured, dried, smoked, steamed, roasted, cut and quick-frozen.
It separates raw bacon, which has had no heat treatment or has not been brought to maturity, from cooked bacon, and classifies products by the meat used.
It fixes the requirements for raw and auxiliary materials and for feeding, the sensory and physico-chemical requirements and net content, the production and processing management, the inspection rules and the requirements for labels, marking, product naming, packaging, storage, transport and sale, and it describes the test methods.
It replaces GB/T 23492-2009, was issued on 30 December 2022 and has applied since 1 July 2024.
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Document preview — GB/T 23492-2022
National Standard of the People's Republic of China
- ICS
- 67.120.10
- Classification
- X 22
- Replacing
- GB/T 23492-2009
Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC
Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and Definitions
- 4 Product categories
Foreword
This document is in accordance with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Guidelines for Standardization Work Part 1: Structure and Drafting Rules for Standardization Documents" drafting. This document stipulates the technical requirements related to food quality, and the relevant requirements on food safety can be found in relevant laws, regulations, policies and food safety standards and other documents.
This document replaces GB/T 23492-2009 "Bacon". Compared with GB/T 23492-2009, except for structural adjustments and editorial changes In addition, the main technical changes are as follows:
--- Changed the definition of bacon (see 3.1, 3.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Added the definition of raw bacon and cooked bacon (see 3.2, 3.3);
--- Changed the product classification (see Chapter 4, Chapter 4 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed raw material requirements (see 5.1, 5.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the excipient requirements (see 5.2, 5.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Increased feeding requirements (see 5.3);
--- Changed the sensory requirements (see 6.1, 5.2 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the physical and chemical indicators (see 6.2, 5.4 of the 2009 edition);
---Deleted requirements for microbiological indicators and food additives (see 5.5 and 5.6 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the net content requirements (see 6.3, 5.3 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the production and processing management (see Chapter 7, Chapter 7 of the 2009 edition);
---Changed the sensory test method (see 8.1, 6.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Added starch test method (see 8.2);
--- Changed the moisture test method (see 8.3, 6.3.1 of the 2009 edition);
---Changed the chloride test method (see 8.4, 6.3.2 of the 2009 edition);
--- Deleted the test methods for nitrite, lead, inorganic arsenic, cadmium, total mercury, benzo(a)pyrene (see 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 2009 edition 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8);
--- Deleted the microbiological test method (see 6.4 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the batch requirements (see 9.1, 8.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the sampling requirements (see 9.2, 8.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the factory inspection requirements (see 9.3, 8.2 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the type inspection requirements (see 9.4, 8.3 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the judgment rules (see 9.5, 8.4 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the labeling requirements (see 10.1, 9.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Increased marking requirements (see 10.2);
--- Added product naming requirements (see 10.3);
--- Changed the packaging requirements (see 10.4, 9.2 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the storage requirements (see 10.5, 10.1 of the 2009 edition);
--- Changed the transportation requirements (see 10.6, 10.2 of the 2009 edition);
--- Delete the sales requirements (see Chapter 11 of the 2009 edition);
--- Deleted the recall requirement (see Chapter 12 of the 2009 edition).
1 Scope
This document stipulates the product classification, raw and auxiliary materials and feeding requirements, technical requirements, production and processing management, inspection rules, labels, labels, etc. of bacon.
Requirements for marking, product naming, packaging, storage, transportation and sales, and description of inspection methods.
This document is applicable to the production, inspection and sale of bacon.
2 Normative references
The contents of the following documents constitute the essential provisions of this document through normative references in the text. Among them, dated references For documents, only the version corresponding to the date is applicable to this document; for undated reference documents, the latest version (including all amendments) is applicable to this document.
GB/T 191 Packaging, storage and transportation icon marks
GB 5009.3 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Moisture in Food
GB 5009.9 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Starch in Food
GB 5009.44 National Food Safety Standard Determination of Chloride in Food
GB/T 9695.19 Sampling methods for meat and meat products
JJF 1070 Quantitative packaging commodity net content measurement inspection rules
3 Terms and Definitions
The following terms and definitions apply to this document.
3.1 Bacon
With only a single pork, duck, chicken or beef as the main raw material, trimmed, ground (or not ground), injected (or not injected), tumbling (or not tumbled), pickled (or not), dried, smoked (or not), steamed (or not), roasted (or not), cut (or not) cut), quick-frozen (or not quick-frozen) and other meat products.
3.2 Raw bacon
Products that have not been heat-processed or have been heat-processed but not matured.
3.3 Cooked bacon
A product that has been heat-processed to maturity.
4 Product categories
4.1 According to the difference of raw meat, it can be divided into:
a) pork bacon;
b) duck bacon;
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Referenced standards
Normative references
- GB/T 191Graphical symbols marking for handling and storage of packages
- GB 5009.3National food safety standard - Determination of Moisture Content in Foods
- GB 5009.9National food safety standard - Determination of starch in foods
- GB 5009.44National food safety standard Determination of chloride in foods
- GB/T 9695.19Meat and meat products - Sampling
- JJF 1070Rules of Metrological Testing for Net Quantity of Products in Prepackages with Fixed Content
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Editions of GB/T 23492
| Edition | Title | Revision | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB/T 23492-2022 | General quality for bacon | current edition | Current |
| GB/T 23492-2009 | General quality for bacon | previous edition | Superseded |
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