BEIJING, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang said here on Tuesday that China attached great importance to food safety and had taken effective measures in legislation, administration and media supervision.

 

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang said here on Tuesday that China attached great importance to food safety and had taken effective measures in legislation, administration and media supervision.(Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    Qin said obvious achievements have been made since China recently tightened supervising on food safety.

    The rate of unqualified products in the export of food from the European Union (EU) to China stood at 0.84 percent in the first nine months of this year, while that from China to EU stood only at 0.2 percent, Qin said.

    "We would make 100 percent efforts to resolve the 0.2 percent problem (unqualified food)," Qin added.

    Citing Japanese official statistics released last July, Qin said, 99.42 percent of the food exported from China to Japan were qualified, which was higher than the United States' rate of 98.69 percent in its exported food to Japan and the EU's rate of 99.38 percent.

    Qin admitted that there is certain problems in Chinese food production, but such problems were very few, and China has taken responsible attitude in dealing with the problems so as to continuously raise the qualification rate of food and other products.

    Noting that food safety was a challenge for the international community, Qin said all countries should join hands to maintain people's health.

    Qin also called on media to make objective, true, just and responsible reports about Chinese food safety, saying China would not only enhance product quality, but also protect legitimate rights and interests of Chinese manufacturers and consumers.