The current Chinese GB standard 4806.1-2016 (General safety requirements for food contact materials and articles) contains, as the European food contact regulation, a requirement (by means of section 3 (Basic requirements)) that, a.o. the amount of substances migrating from Food Contact Materials & Articles into food should not cause harm to human health of the consumer.
Next to that the concept of non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) was introduced in this standard (point 2.13).
However, unfortunately this standard does not indicate how you should indicate that these NIAS do not pose any risk for the health of the consumer.
The EU food contact regulation 10/2011 of January 14, 2011 contains the famous Article 19 on the assessment of substances not included in the Union list and which is the link between Article 3 of the EU framework Directive 1935/2004 and the concept of NIAS.
As European Plastics Industry we have a lot experience with these risk assessments and we like to inform you on our learnings, guidance's and tools that we have developed.
Sabine Lindner, Consumer and Environmental Affairs,
PlasticsEurope
Marcel Bosma | Chairman, PlasticsEurope