ICS 67.160.10
X 60
GB 10344
2005
Replace GB 10344-1989
General standard for the labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverage
Issued on 2005-09-15
Enforced on 2006-10-01
General
Administration
of
Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the
People’s Republic of China
Standardization Administration of China
GB 10344
2005
Content
Preface ....................................................................................................................................II
1 Scope................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Regulatory Referred Documents ................................................................................. 1
3 Terms and Definitions..................................................................................................... 1
3.1 Alcoholic beverage......................................................................................................................1
3.2 Fermented alcoholic drink (brewed alcoholic drink) ..............................................................1
3.3 Distilled spirits..............................................................................................................................2
3.4 Blended alcoholic beverage liqueur ..................................................................................2
3.5 Alcoholic strength (ethanol content).........................................................................................2
4 Basic Requirements ........................................................................................................ 2
5 Markings ............................................................................................................................. 2
5.1 Mandatory markings ...................................................................................................................2
5.2 Exemption of mandatory markings...........................................................................................4
5.3 Non-mandatory markings ..........................................................................................................5
I
GB 10344
2005
Preface
Article 5.3 of the Standard is recommendatory, others are mandatory.
The Standard is one of the national standards of labeling for food which in conjunction with
the GB 7718
2004 General Standard for Labeling of Prepackaged Food. It has same basic
requirements and common stipulations with GB 7718
2004. GB 7718 2004 non-equivalently
adopts CAC CODEX STAN 1-1985(1991 and 1999 revisions) General Standard for Labeling of
Prepackaged Food.
The Standard is to replace GB 10344
1989.
The changes of the Standard to GB 10344 1989 are:
The name of the Standard is changed to: General Standard of Labeling for Prepackaged
Alcoholic Beverages
The alcoholic strength of alcoholic beverages is changed from “0.5
“over 0.5
65.0%(V/V)” to
vol”.
Chapter 4 General Principles in the previous standard is changed to Basic
Requirements; appropriate modifications are carried out on 4.10 of GB 7718
2004; “any
markings in 4.11 shall not be pasted over, printed over or written over” is added.
Chapter 6 is removed.
Defines mandatory marking, exempted marking and non-mandatory markings (see 5.1,
5.2 and 5.3);
Edulcorator, antiseptic and colorant shall be marked with specific names. Other
additives shall be marked as category names stipulated by GB 2760 (see 5.1.2.2).
“Procession Aids” are not required to be marked in “Raw Materials” or “Raw Materials
and Auxiliary Materials” (see 5.1.2.3) ;
“Cautions” is required to be marked for beer packaged with glass bottles (see 5.1.10);
for alcoholics which has been under administration of industrial product manufacturing
licenses, symbols and numbers of manufacturing licenses are required to be marked. (see
5.1.11);
For wines and alcoholic beverages with alcoholic strength over 10% vol, marking of
preservation period may be exempted (see 5.2).
Recommend to mark “Advices” about drinking (see 5.3.2.2).
The Standard is presented by Light Industry Association of China.
The Standard is summarized by National Food Fermentation Standardization Center.
Drafting units of the Standard: China national Research Institute of Food & Fermentation
Industries, Tsingtao Brewery Group, Beijing Yanjing Beer Group, China Great Wall Wine Inc. and
Wuliangye Group.
Major drafter of the Standard: Tian Qijing, Fan Wei, Feng Jingzhang, Tian Yali, Liu Peilong, Chen
Bin, Li Xiaoqing, Dong Jianjun, Xiong Zhenghe, Liu Wen.
The Standard is to replace GB 10344
1989 which was released in 1989.
II
GB 10344
2005
General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Alcoholic Beverages
1 Scope
The Standard stipulates:
Terms and definitions for the labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverages (see Chapter
3);
Basic requirements for the labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverages (see Chapter 4);
Mandatory markings for the labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverages (see 5.1);
Exemptions of mandatory labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverages (see 5.2);
Non-mandatory markings for the labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverages (see 5.3).
The Standard applies to all labeling of prepackaged alcoholic beverages provided to
consumers.
2 Regulatory Referred Documents
Some provisions of the following documents are referred as provisions of the Standard. For any
referred documents marked with date, any following revisions (excluding error correcting) or
revised editions are not applicable to the Standard. However, it is recommended that the parties
achieved agreement on the basis of the Standard discuss about using latest versions of the
documents. For any referred document without date noting, their latest versions are applicable to
the Standard.
GB 2760 Sanitation Standard on Using Food Additives
GB 4927 2001 Beers
GB 7718 2004 General Standard of the Labeling for Prepackaged Food [neq CODEX
STAN 1 1985 (Rev. 1 1991, 1999)]
GB/T 12493 Classification and Codes of Food Additives
GB/T 17204 1998 Classification of Alcoholic Beverages
3 Terms and Definitions
Terms and definitions identified by GB 7718
2004 and the following terms and definitions
apply to the Standard.
3.1 Alcoholic beverage
Alcoholic strength (ethanol content) is more than 0.5
vol, including fermented alcoholic
drinks, distilled spirits and blended alcoholic beverages.
3.2 Fermented alcoholic drink (brewed alcoholic drink)
Fermented alcoholic drinks are alcoholic beverages that made of grains, fruits, milk products
through fermentations
[based on GB/T 17204 1998, definition 3.1]
1
GB 10344
2005
3.3 Distilled spirits
Distilled spirits are alcoholic beverages made of grains, potato and fruits through
fermentations, distillations, aging and blending.
[based on GB/T 17204 1998, definition 3.2]
3.4 Blended alcoholic beverage liqueur
Blended alcoholic beverages are alcoholic beverages made through adding edible auxiliary
materials or food additives to alcoholic bases which are fermented alcoholic drinks, distilled spirits
or edible ethanol and blending or remanufacturing with changed style of the alcoholic base.
[GB/T 17204
1998, definition 3.3]
3.5 Alcoholic strength (ethanol content)
At 20 , content of ethanol in milliliters in 100mL alcoholic beverage, or content of ethanol in
grams in 100g alcoholic beverage.
Note 1: With considering current international practices, alcoholic strength shall be presented with
volume percentage. The symbol is %vol .
Note 2: The ISO 4805 1982 specifies that %vol and %mass is in priority.
4 Basic Requirements
4.1 4.9 They are identical to 4.1 – 4.9 of GB 7718-2004.
4.10 Each minimum package (selling unit) shall provide markings required by 5.1. When an inner
container (bottle) is provide in a package (box) to consumer, it is allowed to only provide
mandatory markings on the package (box) ,while the outer package (or the large package)
comply with relevant production standards.
4.11 Any marking shall not be pasted over, printed over or written over.
5 Markings
5.1 Mandatory markings
5.1.1 Name of alcoholic beverages
5.1.1.1 The specific name which reflects the actual property of the alcoholic beverage shall be
marked clearly on a noticeable position.
5.1.1.1.1 When the national standard or industrial standard has specified several names, one of
them shall be selected.
5.1.1.1.2 A regular name or popular name which does not misleading consumers shall be used
when there is no name specified by national standard or industrial standard.
5.1.1.2 “Invented names” , “strange names”, “transliterated names”, “sign names” , “regional
2
GB 10344
2005
slang names” or “trademark names” are allowed while one of names stipulated by 5.1.1.1 shall be
marked adjacent to the name.
5.1.2 Ingredient List
5.1.2.1 Ingredient lists shall be marked on the labels of prepackaged alcoholic beverages except
for alcoholic beverages make of single raw materials.
5.1.2.1.1 Ingredient lists of alcoholic beverages shall be entitle “Raw Materials” or “Raw Materials
and Auxiliary Materials”.
5.1.2.1.2 Raw materials and auxiliary materials shall be listed in descending order of amounts
added in the production process. Auxiliary materials under 2% may not have to be listed in
descending order.
5.1.2.1.3 The added water and edible alcoholics in the brewing or processing process shall be
marked in the ingredient list.
5.1.2.1.4 For a blended alcoholic beverage
liqueur , the alcoholic base, steamed, dipped and
added edible plants and animal (or their products), allowed herbs and food additives shall be
marked.
5.1.2.2 Food additives allowed by the national standard or industrial standard shall be complied
with stipulations of GB 2760. Names of edulcorator, antiseptic and colorant shall be marked. For
other food additives, specific names or class names may be marked in accordance with
stipulations of GB 2760. When two or more types of colorant are added to an alcoholic beverage,
the class name (colorant) shall be marked followed brackets in which codes stipulated by GB/T
12493 are provided.
5.1.2.3 Processing aids used in production and processing processes of alcoholic beverages
have not to be marked in “Raw Materials” or “Raw Materials and Auxiliary materials”.
5.1.3 Alcoholic Strength
5.1.3.1 For any alcoholic beverage, alcoholic strength shall be marked.
5.1.3.2For markings of alcoholic strength shall be entitled “Alcoholic Strength”.
5.1.4 Content of raw barley wort and raw juice.
5.1.4.1 For beers, “Raw barley wort” shall be marked.
Marking method: marked with “Plato Degree”. The symbol is “ P”. Before GB/T 17204
1998 was revised, the symbol “ ” is allowed to mark raw barley wort content, for example, “Raw
barley wort: 12 ”.
5.1.4.2 For all fruit alcoholic beverages (except for wines), raw juice content shall be marked.
Marking method: marked with “
” in “Raw Material and Auxiliary Materials” .
5.1.5 Names and addresses of manufacturers and dealers.
Identical to 5.1.5 in GB 7718 2004.
5.1.6 Date markings and storage instructions
5.1.6.1 Packaging (bottling) data and preservation period of a prepackaged alcoholic beverage
shall be marked clearly. And storage period marks may be attached. When data marks are
presented with “see xxx position of the package”, the marks shall be in that position.
3
GB 10344
2005
5.1.6.2 Date shall be marked as year/month/day, the “year” field shall be 4-digit. For alcoholic
beverages with small packages, marking the latter 2 digits is allowed.
Example 1: Packaging (bottling) date: for alcoholic beverages bottled on January 15 of 2004, the date may
be marked as:
2004 01 15” (year, month and day are spaced);
or
20040115 (no space);
or
2004-01-15” (year, month and day are separated with hyphen)s
or
th
Jan. 15 ,2004
Example: preservation period: may be marked as:
“It is optimal for consuming before July 15 of 2004”
or “the preservation period is till 2004-07-15”
Or “the preservation period is 6-month (180 days).
5.1.6.3 If the preservation period (or storage period) of alcoholic beverages is related to storage
conditions, specific storage conditions shall be marked in compliance with relevant production
standards.
5.1.7 Net content
5.1.7.1 The mark of net content shall consist of net content, numbers and legal unit of
measurement.
5.1.7.2 Net content of alcoholic beverages are generally presented with volume and the unit is
milliliter or ML (ml) or liter or L (l). Net content of yellow wines in large jars may be presented with
weight and the unit is kilogram or kg.
5.1.7.3 The minimum height of unit of measurements and character in the net content shall be
complied with stipulations of 5.1.4.3 and 5.1.4.4 in GB 7718
2004.
5.1.7.4 Net content shall be marked on the same layout with the name of the alcoholic beverage on the package
or container.
5.1.7.5 When there are several independent small packages in same size in a prepackage, the
quantities of small packages shall be marked together with net content of these small packages.
5.1.8 Product standard numbers
Identical to 5.1.7 of GB 7718 2004.
5.1.9 Quality level
Identical to 5.1.8 of GB 7718 2004.
5.1.10 Warnings
For beers packaged with glass bottles, “Warnings” shall be provided in accordance with 7.1.1
of GB 4927 2001.
5.1.11 Production license
For alcoholic industries implementing management system of production licenses, symbols
and numberings of production licenses shall be marked.
5.2 Exemption of mandatory markings
4
GB 10344
2005
Marking of preservation period is exempted for wines and other alcoholic beverages with
alcoholic strength over 10
vol.
5.3 Non-mandatory markings
5.3.1 Batch number
Identical to 5.3.1 of GB 7718 2004.
5.3.2 Drinking Instruction
5.3.2.1 Instructions on opening containers (bottles or cans) , drinking methods, daily consuming
amount, blending methods may be marked when necessary.
5.3.2.2 Marks of advices such as “Overdrinking is harmful to heath” and “Pregnant women and
children shall not drink” are recommended.
5.3.3 Energy and nutrition
Identical to 5.3.3 of GB 7718 2004.
5.3.4 Types of products
5.3.4.1 Types of products or sugar contents may be marked for fruit wines, wines and yellow
wines.
“Dry”, “Semi-dry”, “Sweet” or “Semi-sweet” shall be marked for fruit wines, wines and yellow
wines, or sugar content shall be marked in accordance with relevant product standards.
5.3.4.2 Sugar content shall be marked for blended alcoholic beverage liqueur produce with fruit
wines, wines and yellow wines or sugar-added alcoholic beverages as alcoholic bases.
5.3.4.3 For distilled spirits with identified fragrance types, “Fragrance Type” shall be marked.
Disclaimer:
Austrade makes no warranty, express or implied as to the fitness for a particular purpose, or
assumes any legal liability for the accuracy or usefulness of any information contained in this
document. Any consequential loss or damage suffered as a result of reliance on this information
is the sole responsibility of the user.
5