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GB 103442005
Replace GB 10344-1989
Issued on 2005-09-15
Enforced on 2006-10-01
General
Administration
of
Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the
Peoples Republic of China
Standardization Administration of China
Release
GB 103442005
Content
Preface ....................................................................................................................................II
1 Scope................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Regulatory Referred Documents ................................................................................. 1
3 Terms and Definitions..................................................................................................... 1
3.1 Alcoholic beverage......................................................................................................................1
3.2 Fermented alcoholic drink (brewed alcoholic drink) ..............................................................1
3.3 Distilled spirits..............................................................................................................................2
3.4 Blended alcoholic beverageliqueur ..................................................................................2
3.5 Alcoholic strength (ethanol content).........................................................................................2
4 Basic Requirements ........................................................................................................ 2
5 Markings ............................................................................................................................. 2
5.1 Mandatory markings ...................................................................................................................2
5.2 Exemption of mandatory markings...........................................................................................4
5.3 Non-mandatory markings ..........................................................................................................5
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Preface
Article 5.3 of the Standard is recommendatory, others are mandatory.
The Standard is one of the national standards of labeling for food which in conjunction with
the GB 77182004 General Standard for Labeling of Prepackaged Food. It has same basic
requirements and common stipulations with GB 77182004. GB 77182004 non-equivalently
adopts CAC CODEX STAN 1-1985(1991 and 1999 revisions) General Standard for Labeling of
Prepackaged Food.
The Standard is to replace GB 103441989.
The changes of the Standard to GB 103441989 are:
The name of the Standard is changed to: General Standard of Labeling for Prepackaged
Alcoholic Beverages
The alcoholic strength of alcoholic beverages is changed from 0.565.0%(V/V) to
over 0.5vol.
Chapter 4 General Principles in the previous standard is changed to Basic
Requirements; appropriate modifications are carried out on 4.10 of GB 77182004; any
markings in 4.11 shall not be pasted over, printed over or written over is added.
Chapter 6 is removed.
Defines mandatory marking, exempted marking and non-mandatory markings (see 5.1,
5.2 and 5.3);
Edulcorator, antiseptic and colorant shall be marked with specific names. Other
additives shall be marked as category names stipulated by GB 2760 (see 5.1.2.2).
Procession Aids are not required to be marked in Raw Materials or Raw Materials
and Auxiliary Materials (see 5.1.2.3) ;
Cautions is required to be marked for beer packaged with glass bottles (see 5.1.10);
for alcoholics which has been under administration of industrial product manufacturing
licenses, symbols and numbers of manufacturing licenses are required to be marked. (see
5.1.11);
For wines and alcoholic beverages with alcoholic strength over 10% vol, marking of
preservation period may be exempted (see 5.2).
Recommend to mark Advices about drinking (see 5.3.2.2).
The Standard is presented by Light Industry Association of China.
The Standard is summarized by National Food Fermentation Standardization Center.
Drafting units of the Standard: China national Research Institute of Food & Fermentation
Industries, Tsingtao Brewery Group, Beijing Yanjing Beer Group, China Great Wall Wine Inc. and
Wuliangye Group.
Major drafter of the Standard: Tian Qijing, Fan Wei, Feng Jingzhang, Tian Yali, Liu Peilong, Chen
Bin, Li Xiaoqing, Dong Jianjun, Xiong Zhenghe, Liu Wen.
The Standard is to replace GB 103441989 which was released in 1989.
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4 Basic Requirements
4.14.9 They are identical to 4.1 4.9 of GB 7718-2004.
4.10 Each minimum package (selling unit) shall provide markings required by 5.1. When an inner
container (bottle) is provide in a package (box) to consumer, it is allowed to only provide
mandatory markings on the package (box) ,while the outer package (or the large package)
comply with relevant production standards.
4.11 Any marking shall not be pasted over, printed over or written over.
5 Markings
5.1 Mandatory markings
5.1.1 Name of alcoholic beverages
5.1.1.1 The specific name which reflects the actual property of the alcoholic beverage shall be
marked clearly on a noticeable position.
5.1.1.1.1 When the national standard or industrial standard has specified several names, one of
them shall be selected.
5.1.1.1.2 A regular name or popular name which does not misleading consumers shall be used
when there is no name specified by national standard or industrial standard.
5.1.1.2 Invented names , strange names, transliterated names, sign names , regional
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slang names or trademark names are allowed while one of names stipulated by 5.1.1.1 shall be
marked adjacent to the name.
5.1.2 Ingredient List
5.1.2.1 Ingredient lists shall be marked on the labels of prepackaged alcoholic beverages except
for alcoholic beverages make of single raw materials.
5.1.2.1.1 Ingredient lists of alcoholic beverages shall be entitle Raw Materials or Raw Materials
and Auxiliary Materials.
5.1.2.1.2 Raw materials and auxiliary materials shall be listed in descending order of amounts
added in the production process. Auxiliary materials under 2% may not have to be listed in
descending order.
5.1.2.1.3 The added water and edible alcoholics in the brewing or processing process shall be
marked in the ingredient list.
5.1.2.1.4 For a blended alcoholic beverageliqueur, the alcoholic base, steamed, dipped and
added edible plants and animal (or their products), allowed herbs and food additives shall be
marked.
5.1.2.2 Food additives allowed by the national standard or industrial standard shall be complied
with stipulations of GB 2760. Names of edulcorator, antiseptic and colorant shall be marked. For
other food additives, specific names or class names may be marked in accordance with
stipulations of GB 2760. When two or more types of colorant are added to an alcoholic beverage,
the class name (colorant) shall be marked followed brackets in which codes stipulated by GB/T
12493 are provided.
5.1.2.3 Processing aids used in production and processing processes of alcoholic beverages
have not to be marked in Raw Materials or Raw Materials and Auxiliary materials.
5.1.3 Alcoholic Strength
5.1.3.1 For any alcoholic beverage, alcoholic strength shall be marked.
5.1.3.2For markings of alcoholic strength shall be entitled Alcoholic Strength.
5.1.4 Content of raw barley wort and raw juice.
5.1.4.1 For beers, Raw barley wort shall be marked.
Marking method: marked with Plato Degree. The symbol is P. Before GB/T 17204
1998 was revised, the symbol is allowed to mark raw barley wort content, for example, Raw
barley wort: 12.
5.1.4.2 For all fruit alcoholic beverages (except for wines), raw juice content shall be marked.
Marking method: marked with in Raw Material and Auxiliary Materials .
5.1.5 Names and addresses of manufacturers and dealers.
Identical to 5.1.5 in GB 77182004.
5.1.6 Date markings and storage instructions
5.1.6.1 Packaging (bottling) data and preservation period of a prepackaged alcoholic beverage
shall be marked clearly. And storage period marks may be attached. When data marks are
presented with see xxx position of the package, the marks shall be in that position.
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5.1.6.2 Date shall be marked as year/month/day, the year field shall be 4-digit. For alcoholic
beverages with small packages, marking the latter 2 digits is allowed.
Example 1: Packaging (bottling) date: for alcoholic beverages bottled on January 15 of 2004, the date may
be marked as:
2004 01 15 (year, month and day are spaced);
or20040115 (no space);
or2004-01-15 (year, month and day are separated with hyphen)s
th
or Jan. 15 ,2004
5.1.6.3 If the preservation period (or storage period) of alcoholic beverages is related to storage
conditions, specific storage conditions shall be marked in compliance with relevant production
standards.
5.1.7 Net content
5.1.7.1 The mark of net content shall consist of net content, numbers and legal unit of
measurement.
5.1.7.2 Net content of alcoholic beverages are generally presented with volume and the unit is
milliliter or ML (ml) or liter or L (l). Net content of yellow wines in large jars may be presented with
weight and the unit is kilogram or kg.
5.1.7.3 The minimum height of unit of measurements and character in the net content shall be
complied with stipulations of 5.1.4.3 and 5.1.4.4 in GB 77182004.
5.1.7.4 Net content shall be marked on the same layout with the name of the alcoholic beverage on the package
or container.
5.1.7.5 When there are several independent small packages in same size in a prepackage, the
quantities of small packages shall be marked together with net content of these small packages.
5.1.8 Product standard numbers
Identical to 5.1.7 of GB 77182004.
5.1.9 Quality level
Identical to 5.1.8 of GB 77182004.
5.1.10 Warnings
For beers packaged with glass bottles, Warnings shall be provided in accordance with 7.1.1
of GB 49272001.
5.1.11 Production license
For alcoholic industries implementing management system of production licenses, symbols
and numberings of production licenses shall be marked.
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Marking of preservation period is exempted for wines and other alcoholic beverages with
alcoholic strength over 10vol.
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