CN 河北够派宠物食品 1.5万元行政处罚 (2025-09-18)
A typical public record of a Chinese pet-feed recall/penalty — freeze-dried material added without re-testing, violating Article 6 of the Pet Feed Management Measures (《宠物饲料管理办法》) and Article 40 of the Feed and Feed-Additive Regulation (《饲料和饲料添加剂管理条例》).
Case core facts
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Enterprise | Hebei Guopai Pet Food Co., Ltd. (河北够派宠物食品有限责任公司) |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Business scope | cat/dog food; pet-food processing and contract processing |
| Channels | 10+ brands online and offline |
| Violation | 10 batches / 584 bags of freeze-dried small-pack pet feed produced 2025-01-01 to 2025-05-28 not quality-inspected |
| Products | probiotic cat food, fish-oil cat food, etc. (with freeze-dried small packs) |
| Production dates | 2025-02 to 2025-05 |
| Concurrent compliance | 200 batches of compound pelleted feed tested in the same period |
| Trigger | consumer complaint via mayor's hotline on 2 popular products |
| Inspection | Xingtai Agriculture & Rural Bureau (邢台市农业农村局) on-site check 2025-05-28 |
| Interview | 2025-06-10 (e-commerce company legal rep + lab technician) |
| Correction order served | 2025-06-10 (same day) |
| Re-check | 2025-07-08 — confirmed self-inspection per batch from 2025-05-29 |
| Penalty decision | 2025-09-18, Xingtai Agriculture & Rural Bureau |
| Fine | CN¥15,000 (1.5 万元) |
| Applicable law | Feed and Feed-Additive Regulation Art. 40 + Hebei discretion benchmark |
| Legal basis | Pet Feed Management Measures Art. 6 |
| Circumstance | "timely correction" (及时改正) → lighter penalty tier |
Core legal basis: GB/T 31216-2014 + GB/T 31217-2014
The enforcement authority's key legal finding:
> "添加冻干物质后的产品因材料变更需重新认定批次并实施出厂检验。" — *After freeze-dried material is added, the product requires batch re-classification and ex-factory inspection due to the material change.*
That is, freeze-dried material is a material change (重大配方变更) requiring a full new-batch ex-factory inspection; the original batch's self-inspection record cannot be inherited.
This is one of the largest differences between Chinese pet-food recall/penalty regulation and the EU/US:
- EU (Reg 2019/626) emphasises batch retention samples + microbiological indicators
- US (FSMA) emphasises HACCP + recall plans
- CN specifically mandates re-inspection triggered by formula change under Pet Feed Management Measures Art. 6
Industry macro background
Industry data disclosed in the case (source: 2025 China Pet Industry White Paper (中国宠物行业白皮书)):
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 urban (dog+cat) consumption market size | > CN¥300 billion (突破 3000 亿元) |
| Food market share | 52.8% |
| Jiangsu consumer council survey — quality instability share | 48.85% |
| Jiangsu — pets with no abnormality after eating | only 25.57% |
| Jiangsu — reduced appetite | 39.45% |
| Jiangsu — coat problems | 30.29% |
| Jiangsu — skin allergy | 27.27% |
A 2025 reply letter from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) clarified the two-department (MOA + State Administration for Market Regulation) coordinated regulatory path:
- MOA: production-licence system for domestic pet-feed producers + import-registration system for overseas pet feed + feed quality-safety oversight (supervisory sampling, routine monitoring, risk early-warning, on-site inspection)
- State Administration for Market Regulation:
- already approved 5 pet-food national standards (dog food, irradiation sterilisation process, drug-residue test methods, etc.)
- organising 2 mandatory national standards: *Pet Food Hygiene Standard* (《宠物食品卫生标准》), *Pet Feed Labelling* (《宠物饲料标签》)
- organising 2 recommended national standards: *Dog Nutritional Requirements* (《犬营养需要》), *Cat Nutritional Requirements* (《猫营养需要》)
Comparison with existing recall database
| Dimension | US Midwestern Pet Foods 2021 aflatoxin | EU RASFF 2024 Salmonella | CN Hebei Guopai 2025-09 freeze-dried not inspected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trigger type | voluntary recall | RASFF border rejection | consumer complaint → administrative penalty |
| Regulator | FDA CVM | EU Member State authorities | Xingtai Agriculture & Rural Bureau |
| Amount | N/A (voluntary) | N/A | CN¥15,000 (1.5 万元) |
| Key defect | aflatoxin over-limit | Salmonella detected | formula change not re-inspected |
| Warning type | acute toxin risk | microbial risk | process-compliance risk |
Source
pdf-raw/cn-recalls/guopai-15000-fine-20250918.html (Southern Plus (南方+) full news text, 16,823 bytes, Tavily extract backup 2026-07-21). The full administrative penalty decision is not public (Xingtai Agriculture & Rural Bureau has not disclosed the complete document); the report is based on that decision and published after legal review.
For EU/US parallel recall regimes, see companion topics RASFF_petfood_* (13 topics) and fda-recalls/00_data_source_summary. For MOA's regulatory framework that governs this enforcement, see companion topics cn_feed_regulation_2011/ and cn-moa-bulletin-202509/.