Overview table of commercially available rice noodles tested and list of those failing to meet national standards

According to the national standard (CNS11172), so-called "pure rice noodles" are made with rice as the raw material and must have a crude protein content of 5.0% or above; "blended rice noodles" are made mainly from 50% or more rice as the primary raw material and must have a crude protein content of 2.5% or above. However, between December 29 of last year and January 14 of this year, NewsMarket purchased 52 branded packaged rice noodle products and sent them to the "China Grain Products Research & Development Institute" for testing. Of these, 45 products had a rice content that did not reach the lower limit of 50% stipulated by CNS, making them ineligible to be called "rice" noodles, and as many as 39 of them had a rice content of less than 20%, all padded out with cheap corn starch. (Download the full testing list)(To read the news, please click here)

In addition, 9 rice noodle products met the CNS11172 rice content standard on their outer packaging labels, but their actual test results were far below the standard value, giving rise to serious suspicion of deceiving consumers.

This article publishes detailed information including the test results of all 52 samples, and presents six cases as examples for reference by all sectors (click images to enlarge).

Note: "non-compliant" in the illustrations below refers to failure to meet the national standard (CNS11172); "mislabeling" means the manufacturer's label does not match the content after testing; "false advertising" means the manufacturer's claims do not match the actual situation.

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