Mid-Autumn Festival is an important holiday in the traditions of Vietnamese and Asian countries. Every year, enjoying moon cakes has become an indispensable cultural feature of everyone, showing unity.
Today, when consumer demand for quality, design and food safety is increasing and the government is tightening production activities through strict requirements in testing and certification, many businesses gradually focus on and meet the quality of production of moon cakes with the criteria of diversifying products from rich sources of raw materials. Accompanying customers, BVAQ Vietnam are pleased to introduce our new service in this holiday: Mooncake Testing.
WHY MUST TEST MOONCAKE?
Testing Moon Cake in accordance with current food regulations is a mandatory condition for product announcement under Decree 15/2018/ND-CP before launching new product on the market. At BVAQ, we always supports your company in making a list of criteria and testing your product in accordance with current regulations that helps you save a lot of time and costs.
FOOD REGULATIONS ON MOONCAKE TESTING
The list of testing criteria can be based on product composition, type of cake (Baked moon cake, sticky rice moon cake) to decide the criteria in accordance with current food regulations.
BVAQ would like to share with you some basic national food decisions/regulations as the legal basis:
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Decision No. 2007/QĐ-BYT – REGULATION MAXIMUM LEVEL OF BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS IN FOOD
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QCVN8-1:2011/BYT – National technical regulation on the limits of mycotoxins contamination in food
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QCVN8-3:2012/BYT - National technical regulation of Microbiological contaminants in food
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Circular 24/2019/TT-BYT - regulations on management and use of food additives
Some basic testing criteria on Moon Cake:
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No. |
Criteria |
Maximum Residue level (MRL) |
Food regulation |
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1 |
Total Plate Count (300C) |
10^4 cfu/g |
Microbiological: QĐ46/BYT |
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2 |
Coliforms |
10 cfu/g |
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3 |
E.coli |
3 cfu/g |
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4 |
Staphylococcus aureus |
10 cfu/g |
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5 |
Clostridium perfringens |
10 cfu/g |
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6 |
Bacillus cereus |
10 cfu/g |
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7 |
Yeast and Mold |
10^2 cfu/g |
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8 |
Salmonella |
Not detected/25g |
TCVN 12940:2020 – Baked Moon Cake TCVN 12941:2020 – Sticky Rice Moon Cake For Moon Cake contain animal products (Meat, eggs, seafood, milk, etc.) |
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9 |
Cd |
0,1 mg/kg |
QCVN 8-2:2011/BYT |
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10 |
Pb |
0,2 mg/kg |
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11 |
Aflatoxin B1 |
2 μg/kg |
QCVN 8-1:2011/BYT |
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12 |
Aflatoxin total ( B1, B2, G1, G2) |
4 μg/kg |
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13 |
Ochratoxin A |
3 μg/kg |
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14 |
Deoxynivalenol (DON) |
750 μg/kg |
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15 |
Zearalenone (ZEN) |
75 μg/kg |
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16 |
Aflatoxin M1 |
0,5 μg/kg |
QCVN 8-1:2011/BYT |
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17 |
Melamine |
2,5 mg/kg |
Decision No.38/2008/QĐ-BYT (For mooncakes contains milk ingredients) |
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18 |
Food additives (if use) |
Follow current food regulation |
Circulars 24/2019/TT-BYT |
Some quality criteria on Mooncakes
In addition to the above basic safety criteria, manufacturers can test and declare additional groups of non-mandatory nutritional criteria according to FDA's Nutrition Facts or the following basic quality criteria:
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No. |
Criteria |
Level |
Food regulations |
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1 |
Water activity |
≤≤ 0.87 |
TCVN 12940:2020 – Baked Moon Cake TCVN 12941:2020 – Sticky Rice Moon Cake
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2 |
Peroxide value |
≤20 meq/kg (a) |
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3 |
Acid value |
≤5 mg/kg |
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4 |
Ash insoluble in acid HCL 10% |
≤0,1 g/100g |
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(a) For active oxygen, 20 meq/kg is equivalent to 10 mmol/kg or 16 mg/100g |
WHY CHOOSE BVAQ VIETNAM
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BVAQ Vietnam (Bureau Veritas Asure Quality Vietnam) inherits advantages from the joint venture between Bureau Veritas Group with over 190 years of experience and the leading testing laboratory in New Zealand - Asure Quality
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Our laboratory facility is accredited to the international standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017, designated by the Food Safety Department - Ministry of Health
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The short turnaround time
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Providing reliable results with a reasonable price
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Offer a wide range of testing services on many kind of samples
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State of the art instruments/methods
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Professional Chemist, Microbiologist, and Analyst
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Customer support in comprehensive and structured ways
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One Quality Management System (QMS), lab information management system (LIM’s) are applied for all our laboratories system
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Closely working with the certification Team – Bureau Veritas and the inspection team to support your business needs
Contact us to get advice and quote on testing criteria on Moon Cake