The Chinese standard for vegetable meat may become a benchmark for the Russian vegetable meat market

The industry union will propose to consider this document at a meeting of the working group on standardization of plant-based products at Rosstandart, said Artem Ponomarev, General Director of SPPRO. China Plant-Based Meat Standard May Be a Guide for Russian Plant-Based Producers The Union of Plant-Based Products (SPPRO) has taken the initiative to prepare an unofficial translation of a voluntary standard for alternative plant-based meat products developed by the China Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) . This document can contribute to the development of approaches to the formation of a methodology in the field of names of various types of plant-based products, according to the industry association. The document contains definitions, specifications and guidelines for the labelling, packaging, transport and storage of alternative plant-based meat products. The standard came into force on June 25, 2021. “The document contains a description of organoleptic properties, ...