Highest standards for food safety
Last week, the highest standards of food of imports, exports and domestic consumption have been unveiled by the government.
According to the senior officials, in order to check imports from the United States strictly, China will send food and drug quality control officials to the country—as US FDA has opened its offices in China.
The government plans to build three State-level food safety committees and two nationwide monitoring networks to ensure the safety of domestic consumption. Chen Zhu, Health Minister said that the move to dispatch officials to the US was based on the “principle of equality”.
During a joint press conference with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt in Beijing, Chen said that after US FDA opened three offices in China, we will also have our quality officials in the US in near future.
The officials headed to the US will come from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said at a separate briefing, it is believed that such arrangement (sending quality control officials to each other’s country) will better the cooperation and communication in food and drug safety issues.
There has not been any timetable for the Chinese officials’ posting.
The three FDA offices in China are the first outside the US, with another two will be open in India next month and two others in Latin America the month after.
The FDA’s operations in China are expected to involve working directly with the AQSIQ, the SFDA and the Ministry of Health to build capacity, ensure standards and share inspection information.
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