Source: CCTV.com

11-09-2007 10:53

Special Report:   High Level Int'l FS Forum

China will revise 600 national standards for food safety inspection to bring them into line with international practice by 2010.

A senior official with the Standardization administration of China, said the country's test standards lagged behind international practice, leading to failed testing results on overseas markets. The government has waged a massive campaign since August to address product quality and food safety issues, which includes agricultural products, food processing industries and medicine.

Pu Changcheng, deputy director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, also said Thursday that trade protectionism had triggered criticisms of Chinese products, but it was unfair to denigrate the "made-in-China" label or regard Chinese goods as inferior. The government had introduced a series of measures to improve the quality, such as tagging qualifying labels on export goods and filing registrations of export-oriented fruit farms.

 

Editor:Xiong Qu