On July 15, 2025, the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) opened 10 new food additives for public feedback, including 2 new varieties of food additives — D-psicose 3-epimerase and Deaminase, 2 new varieties of food nutritional fortification substances — 3-fucosyllactose and Lacto-N-tetraose, 3 kinds of food additives with the scope of use expanded such as Gellan gum, and 3 kinds of food nutritional fortification substances with quality specifications supplemented such as 2'-fucosyllactose. Any comments can be submitted before August 14, 2025. Details are as follows:

Two new varieties of enzyme preparations for food industry

The quality specification requirements of enzyme preparations for food industry should comply with the provisions of the National Food Safety Standard Food Additives Enzyme Preparations for Food Industry (GB 1886.174).

Two new varieties of food nutritional fortification substances

1. Chinese name: 3-岩藻糖基乳糖

English name: 3-fucosyllactose, 3-FL

Function classification: food nutritional fortification substance

The usage, scope of use and quality specification of 3-fucosyllactose should be implemented in accordance with the draft of the food nutritional fortification substance 3-fucosyllactose in the Publicly Soliciting Opinions on 8 New Varieties of Food Additives Including Aminopeptidase issued by the CFSAs (except for Appendix C Information on Production Bacteria for 3-Fucosyllactose). The production bacteria information of the new variety of nutritional fortification substance is shown in the table below.

a is donor of α-1,3-fucosyltransferase

2. Chinese name: 乳糖-N-四糖

English name: Lacto-N-tetraose, LNT

Function classification: food nutritional fortification substance

The usage, scope of use and quality specification of Lacto-N-tetraose should be implemented in accordance with the draft of the food nutritional fortification substance Lacto-N-tetraose in the Publicly Soliciting Opinions on 8 New Varieties of Food Additives Including Aminopeptidase issued by the CFSAs (except for Appendix C Information on Production Bacteria for Lacto-N-tetraose). The production bacteria information of the new variety of nutritional fortification substance is shown in the table below.

a is donor of β-1,3-N-acetylglucosamine transferase

b is donor of β-1,3-galactosyltransferase

One food additive with the the scope of use expanded

One food processing aid with the the scope of use expanded

One food nutritional fortification substance with the scope of use expanded

Three food additives with quality specifications supplemented

1. Food nutritional fortification substance 2'-fucosyllactose

The quality specifications of this substance should be implemented in accordance with the NHC Announcement No. 8 of 2023 (except for Appendix C Information on Production Bacteria for 2'-fucosyllactose), and the production bacteria information on the new variety of nutritional fortification substance is shown in the following table.

a is donor of α-1,2-fucosyltransferase

2. Food nutritional fortification substance Lacto-N-neotetraose

The quality specifications of this substance should be implemented in accordance with the NHC Announcement No. 8 of 2023 (except for Appendix D Information on Production Bacteria for Lacto-N-neotetraose), and the production bacteria information on the new variety of nutritional fortification substance is shown in the following table.

a is donor of β-1,3-N-acetylglucosamine transferase

b is donor of β-1,4-galactosyltransferase

3. Food additive Enzymatically produced steviol glycosides

The information on production bacteria for Enzymatically produced steviol glycosides can be seen in the table below.

a is donor of sucrose synthase

b is donor of uridine diphosphate glycosyltransferase (also known as UDP glycosyltransferase)

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Lillian Zhou

Source: CFSA

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