China GB 2762-2017 - Maximum levels of contaminants in food (superseded)
GB 2762-2017 was China’s successor framework for food-contaminant maximum levels after GB 2762-2012. The official NHC announcement was issued on 17 March 2017, published publicly in April 2017, and the NHC interpretation states that the standard took effect on 17 September 2017. It was replaced by GB 2762-2022 on 30 June 2023.
Scope
GB 2762-2017 remained an omnibus food-contaminant standard. The NHC interpretation describes it as a revision of the 2012 framework that added several special-dietary-food contaminant provisions, deleted rare-earth limits for plant foods, and clarified how dried-food contaminant limits should be interpreted.
Selected limits cited by source pages
This page exists primarily as a historical routing target for 2017-2023 China literature that cites GB 2762-2017. Source-specific pages should quote only the limit values that their source actually uses, or link to the official standard text for the full schedule.
How this page interacts with HMT&C
This page records a historical Chinese regulatory comparator. It does not set HMT&C certification thresholds. Current China-market comparisons should use the active GB 2762 framework.
Sources
- National Health Commission. Announcement No. 4 of 2017 issuing GB 2761-2017 and GB 2762-2017. Source URL: https://www.nhc.gov.cn/sps/c100088/201704/e8b91e9057a84df7a30875a69bf7de12.shtml
- National Health Commission. Interpretation of GB 2761-2017 and GB 2762-2017, published 14 April 2017. Source URL: https://www.nhc.gov.cn/zwgk/jdjd/201704/ee3109697fa24ee4bb7a1030c924f406.shtml
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. China releases GB 2762-2022, noting that the 2022 standard updated the 2017 version and entered into force on 30 June 2023. Source URL: https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/china-china-releases-standard-maximum-levels-contaminants-foods-0
Verification notes
- Created 2026-05-18 as the successor link for the superseded GB 2762-2012 page created during the Liang et al. 2019 ingest.
Page history
The five most recent substantive edits to this page. The full version history lives in git; when DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.