China’s government and public pay more and more attention to food security these years, especially to the food for infants and children. Therefore, if a trade company wants to import infant milk powder into China, it needs go through more strict inspection procedures and more complicated register or record proceedings.
Recently, a client of us is considering doing this kind of business and asks me to do some legal research on this issue. After a simple glance at some relevant laws and regulations, I find this is quite a huge project. To get the qualification of importing infant milk powder, a foreign invested company needs to go through at least five authorities inspection or register and get more than five licenses or certificates. Obviously, it is impossible to list all the procedures in this article, therefore I just point out some special tips for infant milk powder import in inspection declaration procedure as a reminder for companies which are researching on this issue.
1. For importing infant milk powder, the date of inspection declaration must be more than three months earlier than then expiration date of quality guarantee period, otherwise the declaration would be rejected.
2. When inspection declaration, the infant milk powder must have been put in smallest packages for sail. It is forbid to import big package goods and then split them into small package.
3. The Chinese label of the infant milk powder must be printed on the smallest package before import.
My research is continuing and there will be more knowledge and tips on this issue. Hope that will be helpful for the client.