Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 25

The central competent authority may require food labeling showing country of origin and other matters ought to be labeled in Chinese on specific food products supplied at food vending locations. For specific bulk food vendors, the central competent authority may prescribe restrictions on the vending location and methods, or may require food labeling showing product name, country of origin, genetically modified food raw materials, manufacturing date, expiry date and other matters ought to be labeled in Chinese. The domestic certified agricultural products shall label the traceability sources and the production systems if there are production systems prescribed by the central agricultural competent authority in a public announcement.The central competent authority shall prescribe in a public announcement on the items, labeling, methods and scope for specific food products; also the items, restrictions and labeling for specific bulk foods in the preceding paragraph.The provision concerning the labeling of traceability sources or production systems specified in Paragraph 1, as amended on January 20, 2015, shall be implemented six months after the promulgation of this Act.