美国食品标签技术贸易措施对我国出口食品贸易的影响

Influence of U.S. Food Labeling Technical Trade Measures on Chinese Food Export

以研究美国食品标签技术贸易措施对我国出口食品贸易的影响为目的,概述了美国食品标签的管理体制及其技术贸易措施体系的构成,统计了2003年至2007年美国食品药品管理局扣留的我国输美食品标签不合格情况,并从不合格批次、原因和食品种类三个方面进行分析。结果表明,标签不合格食品批次占所有行业被扣留产品批次的8.78%,由食品标签检验发现的添加剂、营养标签、信息标注等不合格问题比较突出,有七个品种的食品标签问题比较集中,它们占所有输美标签不合格食品数量的87.6%。结论表明,美国食品标签技术贸易措施对我国出口食品贸易的影响显著,我国的政府部门、协会商会和企业自身都应该采取措施积极应对。

In order to understand the influence of U.S. food labeling technical trade measures on Chinese food export, we summarized U.S. food labeling management systems and the composition of technical trade measures and statistically analyzed the cases of unqualified food labeling in Chinese food export detained by Food and Drug Administration （FDA） during 2003 to 2007 via three aspects of unqualified batch, reason and food species. The results showed that Chinese unqualified food labeling batches accounted for 8.78 % of the whole detained products, the food label inspection revealed several striking and crucial issues like unqualified additives, nutrition labeling and information labeling problems, and seven species of food contributed to 87.6% of total unqualified labeling food export to U.S.. According to these results, we conclude that U.S. food labeling technical trade measures have a great impact on Chinese export food trade and positive countermeasures should be taken by Chinese governments, associations, chambers of commerce and industries.