China Speeds up Quality Control System for Food Sector

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China Speeds up Quality Control System for Food Sector

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Food safety has become a key factor affecting food industry growth, and the most effective way to solve the problem is to set up a quality control system, a senior Chinese official told an international symposium on Wednesday.

Wang Qinping, deputy director-general of China's State Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine (AQSIQ), toldthe International Symposium on Development Strategy in Processing Agricultural Products-Food Industry that currently there were three main problems in China's food safety. They were contaminatedfood, problems brought by new technology in the food industry and abuse of unauthorized certification.

The food safety problem had aroused worldwide attention, Wang said, adding that the problem was also on the rise in developed countries.

The Chinese government had adopted effective methods to deal with this issue, Wang said. So far, China's food industry had set up a criteria system comprising national, sector, local and company criteria.

The country has laid down 1,050 national, 1,145 sector, nearly 10,000 local and hundreds of thousands of company criteria.

Every year, China's quality supervisory and quarantine departments check about 700,000 food companies and 300,000 batchesof import and export goods.

AQSIQ had begun to set up a quality control system to check food companies and products and attach certification to products which had passed the checks, Wang said.

So far AQSIQ had applied this quarantine system to rice, flour,edible oil, soy sauce and vinegar, and would apply it to meat and dairy products, beverages, seasoning and tea next year, Wang said.

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