Recently, a “rice cooking oil and flour routine” has appeared on the self-media platform. The amount of dissemination is huge, and it has been forwarded tens of thousands of times on one platform.
The article said that the purchase of rice, edible oil and flour depends on the implementation standards on the packaging. For example, GBT1354 is just ordinary rice, and if you want to buy it, you should buy GBT19266, GBT18824 and GBT243822.
The basic idea in this article is to determine the pros and cons of a product according to the standards on the label. This “simple and actionable” life coaching is always welcome. However, the content of this article is completely misunderstood to mislead the public.
What is wrong with this article? What about “food standards”?
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The product standard code is to help consumers understand the product more accurately, and cannot be used as the basis for the selection of the product.
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“GB” is the national standard. It is mandatory, regardless of whether the manufacturer marks it out, it needs to meet its requirements.
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GB/T 1354 is the standard for all rice, and there is no difference between ordinary and advanced.
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Blended oils are not “can’t eat” oils.
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GB/T 1355 is wheat flour, while GB/T 8607 and GB/T 8608 are the standards for subdivided products (high-gluten flour and low-gluten low-gluten) in wheat flour. They refer to flours with different properties, suitable for different purposes, and they do not mean high or low quality.
Why is the “routine” article unreliable?
The “Routine of cooking oil and flour for rice” on the self-media platform is wrong in the basic concept.
The product standard code is required to be marked on the food label to help consumers understand the product more accurately, and cannot be used as the basis for the selection of the product.
Let’s take a look at its specific content and analyze it in detail.
GB mentioned in the article is “national standard”, “GB/T” is “national recommended standard”.
National standard mark
1. About rice
GB/T 1354 (“GBT” in the original blog is wrong, GB/T is the norm) is the standard for all rice, and there is no difference between ordinary and advanced.
GB/T 19266 and GB/T 18824 are two origin-specific “geographical indication protection products” standards. GB/T 243822 does not exist, probably because the author made a typo.
For example, GB/T 1354 is aimed at “Chinese people”, while GB/T 19266 and GB/T 18824 are aimed at “people from such and such places” respectively. If you like the people in these two places, of course there is no problem, but you can’t say that the people in these two places are “high-level people”, and the Chinese people in the overall sense are not good enough “ordinary people”.
2. About oil
“The implementation standard on the oil drum is GB 2760” is a very strange statement. In reality, there should be no edible oil marked as the implementation standard. GB 2760 is a standard for food additives, which is applicable to all foods and is mandatory, regardless of whether it is marked or not . To say that the label is “blended” is pure rumor.
There is a standard GB 2716 for all vegetable oils, which is for all vegetable oils. Vegetable blending oil is a mixture of two or more oils, and GB 2716 can also be marked as a product standard.
There is also a recommended standard GB/T 40851 for blending oils.
Blended oils may be fooled by price and marketing, but they are not “can’t eat” oils themselves.
Blended oil is not inedible oil | Graphworm Creative
Several other recommended standards (all GB/T, not GB in the original blog) are for different kinds of oils. For example, GB/T 1534 only guarantees that it is peanut oil (rather than other oils), but does not indicate its quality.
3. About flour
GB/T 1355 is wheat flour, while GB/T 8607 and GB/T 8608 are the standards for subdivided products (high-gluten flour and low-gluten low-gluten) in wheat flour. They refer to flours with different properties, suitable for different purposes, and they do not mean high or low quality .
For example, 1355 refers to all “college students”, while 8607 and 8608 refer to “XX major college students”.
All in all, many different standards in online articles are just “different categories” and are not suitable for judging the quality of products.
Explain in detail the various “food standards”
According to my country’s “General Rules for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods”, prepackaged food produced in China and sold in China must be printed with a “product standard code”. This general rule is a mandatory national regulation that any food product must comply with.
“Product Standard Code” is the standard followed in the production of food. The standard code consists of 3 parts: a code consisting of two or more letters, a sequence number consisting of a 4-digit or 5-digit number, and an era code represented by a 4-digit number.
For example, the standard code of “General Rules for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods” is GB 7718-2011, in which the code “GB” indicates that this is a national mandatory standard, 7718 is the serial number of this standard, and the date code 2011 refers to its release in 2011. . If this standard is updated and revised, GB 7718 will usually continue to be used, and “2011” will be replaced with the year in which the new version was published. When the new version is implemented, the old version becomes invalid, so sometimes it is possible to only mark the first two parts without the year, and the default is “currently valid version”.
There are many kinds of food production standards｜Photoworm Creative
Food production standards (or “implementation standards”) refer to the basic specifications followed during the production of the product and the basic quality requirements that the product needs to meet. Standards can be divided into different types based on the maker and the scope of their binding force. They are represented by letters in the code. The common ones are:
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National Standard: Also known as “National Mandatory Standard”, expressed in “GB”. Such standards are the “basic” requirements that need to be implemented when producing such products. It is mandatory, regardless of whether the manufacturer marks it out, it needs to meet its requirements.
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National recommended standard: expressed in “GB/T”. It is a standard that the regulatory authorities “recommend” or “call” for common implementation, but it is not mandatory, that is, manufacturers can choose whether to implement it. But if it is marked on the package as a product standard, then all its requirements need to be met; if it is not met, then it cannot be marked. If both GB/T and GB standards are applicable for the same product, the indicators in GB/T cannot be lower than the requirements in GB.
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Industry standards: These standards are formulated and promulgated by the relevant administrative departments of the State Council when there are no national standards. When the regulated products have corresponding national standards, the industry standards will be abolished. Industry standards are also divided into mandatory and recommended, and their meanings are the same as those of national standards. The code names of industry standards are distinguished by the competent departments. For example, the mandatory standard code of the Ministry of Light Industry is “QB” and the recommended standard is “QB/T”; the mandatory standard of the Ministry of Commerce is “SB” and the recommended standard is “SB” /T”; the mandatory standard of the Ministry of Agriculture is “NY” and the recommended standard is “NY/T”. For example, QB/T 5284-2018 is an industry recommendation standard belonging to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (the Ministry of Light Industry was incorporated after the reform of ministries and commissions), namely “Terms and Classification of Frozen Foods”; while NY/T 3168-2017 is The Ministry of Agriculture’s industry-recommended standard “Good Agricultural Practice for Tea”.
NY/T 3168-2017 is the industry-recommended standard “Good Agricultural Practice for Tea” by the Ministry of Agriculture | TuCong Creative
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Local standards: Local standards are formulated by local governments and start with “DB” as the code name. In the past, local standards in various places were scattered and code names were not uniform. In 2019, the National Health and Health Commission issued a document to strengthen the management of local standards, requiring that the code name of the local standard “consists of the letters ‘DBS’ plus the first two digits of the administrative division code of the province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government, followed by a slash”. For example, DBS64/008-2022 is a standard local standard code, “DBS64/” represents the local standard of Ningxia, 008 is the serial number of this local standard “Wolfberry Puree”, and 2022 is the year of release. However, there are still some local standards that do not follow the requirements of this notice. For example, Zhejiang’s local standard “Technical Regulations for Small Yellow Croaker Culture”, the standard code is DB33/T 2496-2022, which does not use “DBS”. Generally speaking, local standards are formulated by local governments in order to regulate production within their jurisdiction when there is no corresponding national standard. In this case, if there is a national standard later, then the national standard shall prevail. If it is a local standard formulated in the presence of a national standard, the index of the local standard cannot be lower than the national standard.
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Group standards: Group standards are usually formulated and released by some industry associations or leading companies in the industry, codenamed “T/XXX”, where XXX is the abbreviation of the issuing organization. Group standards are not mandatory, nor are they recommended by national authorities. They are mainly a kind of “agreement” or “commitment” made by the main producers of the industry, and their content cannot be lower than the requirements in the corresponding national standards. In recent years, many industry associations, social groups and business alliances like to develop group standards, which are more of a marketing behavior. For example, T/CNFIA 138-2021 issued by the Food Industry Association is the group standard for “Whole Soybean Milk”, but restaurants selling soy milk in the market do not need to follow it.
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Enterprise standard: Enterprise standard is a production standard formulated by the enterprise and reviewed and filed by the local competent department. There are two situations for enterprise standards: one is that the product is relatively special and there is no very suitable ready-made standard to cite, so the enterprise formulates its own standards; the other is that the enterprise thinks that some indicators of the national standard are too low, and hopes to use the enterprise standard to improve the market. Make a higher commitment. In either case, the corporate standard cannot conflict with any national mandatory standard, and at least one indicator must be higher than the national standard.
Standards are not the basis for product quality
The general rules of labeling require that the code of the product standard to be implemented must be indicated on the food label. For manufacturers, the product standards mentioned above can be marked as executive standards.
The product standards mentioned above can be marked as executive standards | TuCong Creative
For mandatory standards, whether they are marked or not, they need to be satisfied; for other standards, manufacturers can choose by themselves – marked, they need to be satisfied; if not marked, don’t care.
It should be reminded that the “authoritativeness” of a standard and the “level of indicators” are two different things. If there are different standards for the same food that can be cited, then the authority of the national mandatory standard is the highest, but its index requirements are the lowest. In other standards, the indicators can only be the same as or higher than the national standards.
People who really know the business can indeed gain a lot of product-related knowledge through the code name on the package. However, always remember that the standard is a “pass line”, not a guarantee of “quality” . This is like an exam, you can pass with a score of 60, and you can pass with a score of 90. If you pass, you can graduate. As for whether a graduate is excellent, you need to consider other aspects, not just “graduate or not”.
Author: Yun Wuxin
Edit: You Shiyou, Odette, Small Towel
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