GB 8537-2018 "food safety standards for drinking natural mineral water" was jointly issued by the health committee and the General Administration of market supervision and administration on June 21, 2018 (the publication date was June 22, 2018), replacing GB 8537-2008 "drinking natural mineral water", which was officially implemented on June 21, 2019.

2.1 Raw material requirements

According to the current practice and the actual situation of the industry, the requirements of manganese and oxygen consumption in mineral water source water are deleted。

2.2 Sensory requirements

Color and turbidity requirements are higher. The limit of "chromaticity" index was reduced from 15 to 10 degrees, and the limit of "turbidity" was reduced from 5 NTU to 1 NTU。

2.3 Boundary indicator

Delete the iodide index in the limit index。

2.4 Limit index

Considering the fact that deep groundwater, as natural mineral water, is not easy to be polluted by organic matter, and combined with industry survey, the oxygen consumption index is reduced from 3.0 mg / L to 2.0 mg / L. Remove the less than sign in the original standard limit index, and keep consistent with the definition of the limit。

2.5 Pollutant limits

The six indexes of arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, nitrate and nitrite in the limit index of the old version of the standard are no longer listed in detail, but the provisions of GB 2762 are directly quoted instead。

2.6 Microbial index

Based on the update of the detection method GB 8538, and referring to the microbial sampling scheme in GB 19298-2014 and its requirements for coliform bacteria and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the limit requirements and sampling scheme of coliform bacteria, Streptococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Clostridium perfringens were revised. The limit requirements of these four microbial indicators were modified to five samples, which were more stringent。

2.7 food additives

The expression of direct reference to GB 2760 for food additives is added。

2.8 label

The requirement of product type indication is deleted, that is to say, the mandatory requirement of "natural mineral water containing gas and gas filled" is cancelled; clause 8.1.2 is deleted, that is, the label of natural mineral water for drinking shall not be claimed to have medical effect in the future, and the requirements are more stringent。

2.9 其他

In addition, the old packing rules and the recommended storage standards were deleted.

The description of processing technology requirements in 5.3.2 of the original standard is deleted, and it is directly detailed in the definition of various types of natural drinking mineral water. The requirements of packaging near the water source were further clarified。