Special Dietary Food Testing
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Special dietary food is specially processed or formulated food to meet special physical or physiological conditions, or to meet special dietary needs under conditions such as diseases and disorders. China has strict standard definitions for special dietary food. The National Food Safety Standard - Labeling of Prepackaged Special Dietary Food (GB 13432) clearly states that the categories of special dietary food mainly include: infant food, formulated food for special medical use, complementary food and nutritional supplements, nutrition food for sports and other special dietary food under other corresponding national standards.
According to Article 74 of Chapter IV of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, the state implements strict supervision and management of special food such as health food, formulated food for special medical purposes, and formulated food for infants and young children.
On October 31, 2017, the State Food and Drug Administration issued a notice on regulating special food verification and evaluation work (No. 168 of 2017), stipulating the record-keeping management of technical institutions that undertake verification and evaluation such as product inspection, safety and functional verification and clinical trial related to the registration or record of special foods.
Up to now, the Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Qingdao, and Tianjin laboratories under the Food and Agriculture Division of the Ti Group have successively be qualified as the special food verification and evaluation technical institutions to undertake the verification and evaluation of the special food.
National Food Safety Standard - General Rules for Sports Nutrition Food (GB 24154)
National Food Safety Standard - Food Complementary Food and Nutritional Supplements (GB 22570)
National Food Safety Standard - Infant Formula (GB 10765)
National Food Safety Standard - Formulas for Older Babies and Young Children (GB 10767)
National Food Safety Standard - Cereal Supplementary Foods for Infants and Young Children (GB 10769)
National Food Safety Standard - General Rules for Infant Formulas for Special Medical Purposes (GB 25596)
General Rules for Formulated Food for Special Medical Purposes (GB 29922)
National Standard for Food Safety - Labeling of Prepackaged Food for Special Dietary Uses (GB 13432)
The Food and Agriculture Division of Ti Group can provide the following one-stop service solutions for special dietary food:
1. Acceptance of Raw Materials
Raw materials’ identification and testing of characteristic components
Nutrient premixed raw materials testing
Testing of specific risk indicators (plasticizers, toxins, etc.)
Type testing of raw materials
2. Product Research and Development
Product stability research
Whole project testing/hygiene testing
Testing method development, optimization and methodological verification
Foods for Special Medical Purpose(FSMP) d registration consultation and agency services
Other R&D related services: capacity comparison, laboratory capacity building guidance, etc.
3. Product Production
Uniformity verification
Type inspection
Functional ingredients/hygiene index testing
Production environment monitoring (clean room, production water, production line allergen monitoring, etc.)
4. Market Circulation and Supervision
Sampling inspections on government and e-commerce platforms
Product label compliance review
Others: marketing research, mystery customers service, legal interpretation training, etc.
Long-term customers can sign long-term service contracts with us.
Non-long-term customers are required to sign a single commission inspection and testing agreement.
For long-term service contract customers, the expenses should be settled according to the settlement method and time agreed in the contract;
Customers who requests a single test must pay for the test before the test service begins.
Consultation and communication
Sign a contract or an agreement
Sample delivery
Payment
Testing report
Call or email us for the feasibility.
Delivery (by courier or on-site delivery): Customers provide the sample clearly marked with the sample name and batch number, and send to the assigned laboratories together with the completed and stamped agreements.
The amount of samples should be determined according to the test, and can be confirmed in advance. For samples with special preservation requirements, please indicate them in the entrustment agreements.
The test report will be sent in the form of an electronic report to the customer’s assigned email address after completion of the test.
Courier: A paper copy of the report can be provided by courier or take it yourself..
