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, wild rice)
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)
Fresh vegetables (for example, fresh or chilled cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled peas with or without pod)
Plant-based seasonings (for example, peppercorn, dried mint leaves)
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.

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Functional food includes (list provided by the General Administration of Customs China)

Minerals, vitamins, protein powders, fish oil and seal oil.

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Footnote 2

Food for special dietary purpose (definition provided by the General Administration of Customs China)

Soy based infant formula: refers to soy and soy protein products as the main raw material, adding the right amount of vitamins, minerals and/or other ingredients, using only physical methods of production and processing made suitable for normal infants and young children to eat liquid or powder products
Special medical use formula, in order to meet the eating restrictions, digestive and absorption disorders, metabolic disorders or specific disease states of people with special needs for nutrients or diet, specially processed and formulated formula
Such products must be under the guidance of a doctor or clinical nutritionist, eaten alone or in conjunction with other foods.
Infant and toddler complementary foods, including infant and toddler canned complementary foods and infant and toddler cereal complementary foods
Infant and toddler filling supplements are food materials processed, filling, sealing, sterilization or aseptic filling to commercial sterility, can be stored at room temperature for infants and toddlers over 6 months of age; infant and toddler cereal supplements are one or more cereals as the main raw material, and cereals account for more than 25% of the dry matter composition, add the appropriate amount of nutritional fortification and (or) other auxiliary ingredients, made by processing the supplementary food suitable for infants and toddlers above 6 months of age.
Others (supplemental nutritional supplements, sports nutrition food, etc.) other to meet the special physical or physiological conditions and (or) to meet the special dietary needs of disease, disorders and other states, specially processed or formulated food

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Date modified:: 2023-11-23

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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

Category: medium-risk, registration in CIFER required

Category: medium-risk, listing registration required

Category: low-risk