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Enhance food safety
Updated: 2007-08-18 07:11
The White Paper on the nation's food quality and food security situation
released yesterday aims to put at ease the hearts of consumers at home
and abroad.
Despite a string of health concerns triggered by fake and below-standard
food products recently, the authoritative document insists that overall
food quality has been improving steadily in the country.
According to the White Paper, last year 77.9 percent of food products
sampled in the domestic market were up to standard, and the proportion
for the first half of this year rose to 85.1 percent.
Meanwhile, as a major world food exporter, the country's food product
exports are over 99 percent up-to-standard.
Such encouraging results are certainly good news for consumers and our
trade partners.
As a responsible country, China has set up an effective system for
safeguarding every link in food exports. Hence, a few bad producers
should not be regarded as representing all Chinese food exports.
The Chinese government has always taken food safety seriously as it
concerns people's health, the market's credibility and the country's
image.
In recent years, efforts have been made by concerned authorities to
tighten industry regulations, step up legislation and law enforcement and
improve supervision of food quality.
The country has vowed to take severe measures to punish company culprits,
including blacklisting them and imposing export ban.
To improve its administration in food quality and safety and promote
international trade in food products, the country has also been keen on
borrowing successful experiences from other countries and has actively
engaged in international co-operation.
Back at home, being aware of the fact that China's food and drug
supervision work began late and its foundations weak, the country's
watchdog announced earlier this month that the State will invest 8.8
billion yuan (around $1.2 billion) to improve technology and
infrastructure of food and drug supervision system.
However, it is a long way before we plug all loopholes in the whole
process of food production and marketing.
The fact that nearly 5,800 tons of substandard foods were recalled in the
first half of the year speaks volumes for the urgency to build a more
efficient and transparent supervision system on the production and
marketing of food products.
On the other hand, some profit-driven businessmen in the trade have been
blatant in giving a cold shoulder to concerned regulations and laws. In
this regard, severe punishment should be meted out to deter whoever dares
manufacture and market fake food items.
(China Daily 08/18/2007 page4)
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