Full Text: China's food quality and
safety
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government is determined to step up fight to prevent substandard
foodstuffs from going overseas, said a white paper issued here on Friday.
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Two officials are inspecting food
quality in Jingan county, Jiangxi Province, south of China, July 27, 2007.
A white paper issued on Friday by the Information Office of China's State
Council revealed that 85.1 percent of the country's food products passed
quality checks in the first half of the year.(Xinhua
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Over the years, China has been promoting the quality
and safety level of exported food and satisfy numerous Chinese and foreign
customers with high-quality, delicious and inexpensive foodstuffs, said the
white paper released by the Information Office of China's State Council.
"The qualification rate of exported Chinese food
products has been over 99 percent for many years," said the 29-page white paper
on the country's food safety.
This is due to a quality control system that covers
all major food exports of the country, especially high-risk foodstuffs such as
meat, aquatic products and vegetables, it said.
"Yet, there are still a tiny number of enterprises
that disregard the law, regulations and standards of China and importing
countries and, by deception or fraud, avoid supervision by the inspection and
quarantine authorities, or export food by improper channels," it said.
"Consequently, some adulterated, counterfeit or
shoddy foodstuffs have found their way from China into foreign markets."
As an important way to guarantee the country's food
exports, the system has a set of standards applying to both food companies and
farming bases, covering the whole process of food production and circulation.
Chinese quarantine authorities have adopted a
registration system for farming bases that supply raw materials for food
exports. So far, 6,031 animal farms and 380,000 hectares of farmland have been
registered with the authorities, with their name list publicized on the official
website.
Manufacturers of food exports also have to register
with hygienic authorities and receive supervision of quarantine authorities on a
regular basis. The quarantine authorities also dispatch resident inspectors to
large-scale manufacturers of high-risk products such as meat. Currently, 12,714
food manufacturers have been registered with hygienic authorities.
The government has also developed a credit system for
food exporting enterprises. Companies with serious quality problems or cheating
on quality or safety will be named and shamed on the Internet. So far, 55
companies have been put on the blacklist.
China exported 24 million tons of foodstuffs in 2006,
worth 26.7 billion U.S. dollars. The largest buyers were Japan, the United
States, Korea, Russia, Germany and Malaysia.
85.1% of China's food products
qualified in 1st half of 2007
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A white paper issued on
Friday by the Information Office of China's State Council revealed that 85.1
percent of the country's food products passed quality checks in the first half
of the year.
The paper emphasized the proportion of Chinese food
products that passed quality inspections had risen steadily in recent years,
rising from 77.9 percent in 2006 to the current figure of 85.1 percent. Full story
White paper reveals figures for
China's food exports
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A white paper issued by the
Information Office of the State Council on Friday said 477 batches of food
products out of 55,000 exported to the United States were rejected in the first
half of 2007, an acceptance rate of 99.1 percent.
Food products exported to the European Union fared
better with 135 batches out of 62,000 failing to meet quality standards, an
acceptance rate of 99.8 percent. Full story
White paper: China takes measures to supervise imported
food
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China uncovered 12,292 tons
of illegally imported meat in 2006 and the first half of 2007, according to a
white paper on the country's food safety issued by the Information Office of the
State Council on Friday.
Exploration and practice over the years have enabled
China to set up a complete framework of food quality and safety supervisory
system and guarantee measures to ensure the safety of imported food, said the
white paper. Full story
White paper: China builds food safety
law regime, technological guarantee system
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China has established a
complete law regime and technological guarantee system for food safety, said a
white paper on China's food safety issued by the Information Office of the State
Council on Friday afternoon.
The white paper, first of its kind, said China now
has a complete law regime providing a sound foundation and good environment for
guaranteeing food safety, improving food quality and regulating food imports and
exports. Full story
White paper: China steps up
supervision on food workshops
BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China has stepped up
nationwide monitoring on food workshops with fewer than ten employees to ensure
food quality and safety, said a white paper issued here on Friday.
The white paper, issued by the Information Office of
China's State Council, is the first of its kind on China's food safety. Full story
White paper: China among world's top
ten in green food farming
BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- China is one of the top ten growers of green food in the world, with 2.03 million hectares producing certificated organic products, a white paper says.
According to a report on food quality and safety released by the
Chinese government Friday, China has established a certification and
accreditation system covering the entire process "from the farming field to
dining table". Full story
