China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) recently issued an announcement prohibiting the production, sale, and use of 33 products, including propylparaben, as food additives, effective immediately. According to the Ministry of Health's reply regarding issues related to the "Standards for the Use of Food Additives" (GB2760-2011), AQSIQ has decided that, effective immediately, provincial quality and technical supervision bureaus will no longer accept applications for production licenses for these 33 food additive products, including food preservatives such as propylparaben and food disinfectants such as chlorine dioxide. Existing production licenses will be revoked and cancelled by regulatory authorities, a process to be completed by December 20th of this year. It is understood that the 33 products involve propylparaben, sodium propylparaben, thiabendazole, sodium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, trisodium phosphate chloride, sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, sodium dodecyl sulfonate, 1-propanol, sodium 4-chlorophenoxyacetate, 6-benzyladenine, monoethanolamine, sodium dichloroisocyanurate, petrolatum, calcium aluminum silicate, succinic anhydride, adipic acid, adipic anhydride, formaldehyde, tetrapotassium pyrophosphate, urea, triethanolamine, dodecyl dimethylammonium bromide (benzalkonium chloride), iron powder, pentacarbon diacetal, ammonium sulfite, iron oxide, silver, oleic acid, fatty alcohol amide, and sodium fatty ether sulfate. At the same time, all food additive manufacturers are prohibited from producing the above 33 products, and those already produced are prohibited from being used as food additives.
