European Union improve the Lead and Cadmium standard of daily-use porcelain(2009/11/23)

Recently, the EU issued a new directive of food porcelain, lead and cadmium reduced to 0.2 mg / liter.

The European Commission Directive No. 84/500/EEC "On contact with food standards and performance of porcelain products declaration of conformity" to amend it. Instructions for the record that, from May 20 this year onwards, in line with the directive to allow the use of porcelain products and conduct trade; May 20 next year onwards, does not comply with the directive will ban the production of porcelain products and imports.

The new directive on the production and marketing in the European Union, possibly in contact with food products made porcelain, accompanied by producers and distributors to provide a written statement, indicating the final products porcelain manufacturers and EU importers of identity and address; porcelain products, features ; date and the statement meet the relevant requirements. The new directive on the instrumental analysis and the detection limits of lead and cadmium from the standard 4.0 mg / l, 0.3 mg / l were revised to 0.2 mg / l, 0.2 mg / l, thereby enhancing the market for such products entering the EU threshold .

Enterprises generally worried about the next few years, the technical problems are not broken, ceramics exports will face serious difficulties. Industry analysis, the United States in order to prevent a large number of Chinese ceramics for daily use to enter repeatedly to set up technical barriers, the EU imported ceramics for daily use increased the threshold, so that the standard is higher than the United States, is likely to lead to more domestic ceramics for daily use are sold to the United States, which cause the United States on China's Ceramics Limited standards and improvement requirements.
(by China Leiyuan, 2009/11/23)