China's Decree 248 – lists of high-risk and medium-risk product categories

Category: high-risk, registration in the China Import Food Enterprise Registration (CIFER) required

• Meat and meat products (beef and pork)
• Aquatic products (fish and seafood products for human consumption)
• Dairy products
• Eggs and egg products (note: Canada does not have market access for these products)

Category: medium-risk, registration in CIFER required

• Bee products (for example, honey, royal jelly)
• Casings (salted)
• Grain milling products (for example, soy flour, dried bean flour, malt, wheat flour, oat flour, oatmeal)
• Edible vegetable oil
• Functional food^Footnote 1
• Foods for special dietary purposes^Footnote 2

Category: medium-risk, listing registration required

• Pulses (for example, raw grains of dried peas, kidney beans, navy beans)
• Oilseeds (for example, mustard seed, flaxseed, borage seeds)
• Edible raw grains (for example, canary seed, wild rice)
• Fresh vegetables (for example, fresh or chilled cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled peas with or without pod)
• Plant-based seasonings (for example, pepper, mustard powder, paprika)
• Unroasted coffee beans
• Unroasted cocoa beans (note: Canada does not have market access for this product)

Category: low-risk

The low-risk category includes all other food products not listed as high risk and medium risk categories above.