Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 22

The container or external packaging of food and food raw materials shall conspicuously indicate in Chinese and common symbols the following matters:1. product name;2. names of the ingredients; those that contain two or more ingredients shall indicate the respective ingredients in descending order of proportion;3. net weight, volume or quantity;4. name of food additives; in the case of a mixture of two or more food additives which are named according to their function shall indicate the name of each additive separately;5. name, telephone number and address of the manufacturer or that of the responsible domestic company. The traceability sources of the domestic certified agricultural products; and the production systems prescribed by the central agricultural competent authority in a public announcement;6. country of origin;7. expiry date;8. nutrition label;9. genetically modified food raw materials;10. other matters designated by the central competent authority in a public announcement.Labeling of the ingredients mentioned in Subparagraph 2 of the preceding paragraph, shall indicate the percentage of the main ingredient. The labeling of food items, main ingredient, labeling content, labeling method, and the implementation date of each product shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.The compliance matters of the labels mentioned in Subparagraphs 8 and 9 of Paragraph 1 shall be prescribed by the central competent authority in a public announcement.For the food only labels the name of the responsible domestic company prescribed in Subparagraph 5 of Paragraph 1, its name, telephone number, address of the manufacturers, and those businesses that are entrusted to manufacture or importers shall be reported to the local competent authority. The competent authority shall open such information to other competent authorities for reviewing.