Hi, Guys
Agreed with @nickisnew. This is an interesting article, good read. More google translate of the article for guys cannot read Chinese.
Hang on and stay positive.
"Total number of Infant formula registration product does not exist total control. So far, 1195 formulations, including 155 domestic and foreign companies, have been licensed/approved, about 1750 (since Oct? 2017) if all of them are approved according to current applications and the number of factories. Of course, as a result of new factory coming in or write-off, will eventually be a dynamic result. As for milk powder companies, they generally feel that the registration process is slow, mainly because the work is subject to strict supervision, limited by the registration verification tasks that must be carried out, and overseas factory inspection and other exit indicators are also limited. But now regulators are trying to coordinate, hoping to solve this problem as soon as possible.
At present, 210 enterprises/factories, & 1700 formulations have submitted the infant formula product registration (since end of 2017?) . We hope that more new formulas will be approved around March 2019. Even so, the pace of approval will be relatively slow, enterprises are to be prepared
On 24th December 2018, the General Administration of Customs issued an update on the registration of foreign-funded dairy production enterprises in the Netherlands, in which the Netherlands has added a company called Viburedrijf A. Buisman B.V. France added a production enterprise under the name of Bl-dina STEENVOORDE. In addition, Bellamy has also obtained China's organic product certification through Camerdown Powder Pty Ltd. This also means that Bellamy is expected to export its most core organic milk product to the Chinese market through general trade.
After 5 days, the General Administration of Customs and the General Administration of Customs issued the Notice on the Application of the List of the Overseas Production Enterprises of the Imported Infant and Infant Formula, which was approved for the continuation of the registration, and announced that 55 overseas-born production enterprises were granted the registration qualification in China. The publication of the series of news releases the orderly and orderly signal from the work of the overseas-care factory.
The State Administration for Market Registration (SAMR) is responsible for the registration and management of the infant formula. And the State General Administration of Customs is responsible for the registration and administration of overseas factories. The former is the product formula admission, and the latter is the entrance of the imported product factory. Both of them are the pre-set conditions for the imported infant formula milk powder products to be sold in China through the large-trade channel, each with a focus, a lack of one and the same time, and the two are independent legal basis and system, and do not affect each other. However, where necessary, one of the registration results may serve as a reference for the other party.