WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/CHN/30
24 October 2003
(03-5641)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Health & National Committee on Standard Management
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Food
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:   All
countries and regions
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Maximum residue limits
for pesticides in food (available in Chinese, 70 pages)
6. Description of content:  This standard stipulates maximum residue limits for 136
pesticides in food.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [   ] protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [   ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Refer to Codex STAN - Maximum residue
limits for pesticides in food.  As the classifications of foods in this standard are different
from Codex, their MRLs also differ to some extent from the Codex Standard.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  No
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be determined
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   6 months after adoption
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty days after circulation by the Secretariat.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: