GB/T 46116-2025Evening primrose oil (English PDF)

Foreword

This document complies with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Standardization Work Guidelines Part 1: Structure and Drafting Rules of Standardization Documents". Drafting.

This document specifies the technical requirements related to food quality. For food safety requirements, please refer to relevant laws, regulations, policies, and food safety standards. document.

Please note that some content in this document may involve patents. The issuing organization of this document assumes no responsibility for identifying patents.

This document was proposed by the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration.

This document is under the jurisdiction of the National Technical Committee on Standardization of Grain and Oil (SAC/TC270).

This document was drafted by: COFCO Engineering Science (Xi'an) International Engineering Co., Ltd., Wuhan University of Light Industry, Henan University of Technology, and the State Grain and Material Reserves Administration.

The State Reserve Bureau Scientific Research Institute and Liaoning Shengmai Industrial Co., Ltd.

The main drafters of this document are: Fang Xiaopu, Zhang Xiaoyong, He Dongping, Liu Yulan, Xue Yalin, Cao Wanxin, Meng Ju, Li Yanjie, Ni Fangyan, and Zhang Sihong. Wu Jianbao and Wei Anchi. Evening Primrose Oil

1 Scope

This document defines the terminology and definitions for evening primrose oil, and specifies quality requirements, inspection rules, labeling, packaging, storage, transportation, and sales.

The document describes its testing methods.

This document applies to edible evening primrose oil products made from evening primrose.

2 Normative references

GB/T 191

GB/T 5009.37

GB 5009.168

GB 5009.236

GB/T 5490

GB/T 5524

GB/T 5525

GB/T 5526

GB/T 5527

GB/T 5532

GB/T 5534

GB/T 5535.1

GB/T 5535.2

GB/T 15688

GB/T 17374

GB/T 30354

3 Terms and Definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

4 Quality Requirements

About this edition

GB/T 46116-2025 is the current edition. It was issued on 29 August 2025 and has been in force since 1 March 2026.

The interval between issue and effect is the transition period. It exists so that producers, laboratories and buyers can requalify products, revise procedures and use up documentation before the new text becomes the one that applies. The date on this page is the official one from the record of the Standardization Administration.

Classification and status

GB/T 46116-2025 is classified under ICS 67.200.10. ICS is the International Classification for Standards, the same scheme used by ISO and by the national bodies of most countries, which is what allows a Chinese standard to be placed beside its foreign counterparts on subject rather than on number.

Its Chinese Standard Classification code is CCS X 14. CCS is the domestic scheme, a letter for the sector and two digits for the subject within it, and it is the code by which the standard is filed and searched in China.

The GB/T prefix marks a recommended national standard. It is not, in itself, law: it becomes binding when a contract names it, when a regulation or a mandatory standard refers to it, or when a producer declares conformity with it. In practice that covers most of the cases in which it will be read — a purchase specification, an inspection agreement or a certification scheme.

How a Chinese national standard is set out

Chinese national standards are drafted to the rules of GB/T 1.1, which fixes the order in which a standard is set out. The document opens with a foreword recording the issuing bodies, the relationship to any previous edition and the technical committee responsible for it. Clause 1 is the scope. Clause 2 lists the normative references — the other standards that have to be applied together with this one, and without which its requirements cannot be met. Clause 3 gives the terms and definitions. The technical clauses follow: the requirements themselves, the test or measurement methods by which conformity is established, the inspection rules that say how a lot is sampled and judged, and, for a product standard, the provisions on marking, packaging, transport and storage. Annexes, normative or informative, come last.

GB/T 46116-2025 runs to 15 pages in the English translation. What is delivered is the complete document in that order: every clause, every table, every figure and every annex of the Chinese original, with the same numbering, so that a reference to a clause number in a contract or a test report points to the same place in both languages.

About this English translation

The English edition of GB/T 46116-2025 is a full translation of the official Chinese text, not a summary, an abstract or a machine rendering left unchecked. Clause and subclause numbers, table and figure numbers and annex letters are those of the original, because they are what a specification, a purchase order or a test report cites.

Technical terms are translated against the vocabulary standards of the same field, so that a term used in GB/T 46116-2025 reads the same way as in the other Chinese standards it is used beside. Where a term has an established English form in an ISO or IEC document on the same subject, that form is used; where China's term has no foreign counterpart, it is translated literally and the Chinese is kept alongside it rather than replaced by an approximation.

Quantities, units and symbols are carried over unchanged. Chinese standards use SI, so a value in the translation is the value in the original document, not a conversion, and a limit read from the English text is the limit that will be applied by a Chinese inspection body reading the Chinese one.

This page is compiled from the official publication record: the standard number and both titles, the issuing bodies, the dates of issue and effect, the ICS and CCS classification. The requirements, limits, tables and test conditions are in the document itself.