{"topic_id":"CN_petfood_supervision_2021","category":"china","context":"---\ntopic_id: \"CN_petfood_supervision_2021\"\nlang: en\ntitle: \"China's dedicated pet food regulatory framework was established in 2018, not 202\"\nsource_document: \"China Pet Feed Administrative Measures (MOA Announcement No. 20, 2018)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"china\"\n  title: \"China's dedicated pet food regulatory framework was established in 2018, not 202\"\n  url: \"\"\n  retrieved: \"\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"official source\"\n  needs_review: true\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:cn-gov\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\n\nChina's dedicated pet food regulatory framework was established in 2018, not 2021: MOA Announcement No. 20 (中华人民共和国农业农村部公告第20号, signed 2018-04-27, effective 2018-06-01) issued six normative documents under the Feed and Feed Additive Administration Regulation (State Council Decree No. 609): 宠物饲料管理办法 (administrative measures), 宠物饲料生产企业许可条件 (production license conditions), 宠物饲料标签规定 (labeling rules), 宠物饲料卫生规定 (hygiene rules), and two sets of license application material requirements. Key provisions: producers of 宠物配合饲料/宠物添加剂预混合饲料 must obtain a feed production license (办法第三条); only catalogue-listed ingredients and additives may be used (第四条); products must pass quality inspection before sale (第六条); labels must follow the labeling rules (第八条); hygiene indicators must meet the hygiene rules (第九条); imported complete/premix pet feed requires an import registration certificate via a Chinese agent (第十四条); supervision includes regular or ad-hoc sampling by feed authorities with published results (第十六条); penalties reference Regulation Articles 38–46. Transition deadlines: new license/registration applications follow the new rules from 2018-06-01; hygiene compliance for products made after 2019-01-01; existing unlicensed producers/importers had to comply by 2019-09-01. Scope: pet dogs and cats only (办法第二十七条). In 2021–2025 MOA issued 2,564 imported pet food registrations (feed-china.cn analysis); the framework itself dates to 2018.\n","sources":["china — China's dedicated pet food regulatory framework was established in 2018, not 202"],"source":{"authority":"china","title":"China's dedicated pet food regulatory framework was established in 2018, not 202","url":"http://www.moa.gov.cn/","retrieved":"","ref":"","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"China Pet Feed Administrative Measures (MOA Announcement No. 20, 2018)","verification_file":""},"source_document":"China Pet Feed Administrative Measures (MOA Announcement No. 20, 2018)","source_file":"","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":241,"generated_at":"2026-07-19","tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}