China will formulate and revise 1,000 food standards

Strive to achieve a sampling rate of more than 97% for food quality inspection by 2015. The Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the “Twelfth Five-year Development Plan for Food Industry” to determine “safety, quality, nutrition, health, and convenience As a development direction, the company will strengthen the management of quality and safety in the entire industry chain, improve food quality, and ensure food safety. By 2015, China will formulate and revise 1,000 national and industrial standards to ensure that the qualified rate of food quality sampling exceeds 97%, and the people’s satisfaction with food safety is significantly improved.

The "Planning" emphasizes the need to further strengthen the supervision of food quality and safety, raise the access threshold for key industries, improve the food safety supervision and management system, improve the food standard system, strengthen inspection (supervisory) testing capacity building, and improve the food recall and delisting system. Corporate food safety subject liability. The "Planning" specifically requires the formulation (revision) of industry standards for food additives, convenience foods, meat products, dairy products, and beverages, as well as improvement of food safety standards, basic general standards, key product standards, and inspection method standards. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the participation in the formulation (revision) of international standards and follow-up studies on relevant national standards.

In order to strengthen the capacity for inspection (supervisory) testing, the "Planning" proposes to gradually realize the localization of key testing equipment and focus on promoting the construction of product quality and food safety monitoring centers and laboratories. It is necessary to urge enterprises to increase the configuration of advanced inspection equipment such as raw material inspection, dynamic monitoring of production processes, and product shipment inspection, and improve internal quality control, monitoring systems, and food quality traceability systems. It is necessary to improve the inspection and inspection capabilities of the regulatory authorities, strictly control the qualifications of food inspection agencies, improve the level of inspection equipment at national and provincial food inspection agencies at all levels, and strengthen the capacity building of teams.

In order to maintain the safety of the food industry, the "plan" clearly requires strict compliance with the "Foreign Investment Industry Guidance Catalogue" and relevant provisions of the project approval to strengthen soybean oil, rapeseed oil, peanut oil, cottonseed oil, tea seed oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, etc. Management of foreign investment in edible oil processing and corn deep processing industries. We must do a good job in the safety review of major domestic agricultural product enterprises for foreign capital mergers and acquisitions, and use trade remedy measures such as anti-dumping, countervailing, and safeguard measures to protect the domestic food industry.

It is understood that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, China will guide and promote competitive enterprises to implement strong alliances, cross-regional mergers and reorganizations, and increase industrial concentration. In order to speed up the structural adjustment of the dairy industry, China will actively guide enterprises to adopt cross-regional mergers and reorganizations, foster large-scale enterprise groups with advanced technology and international competitiveness, and change the unreasonable layout of dairy industry enterprises and the serious situation of redundant construction. In addition, the "Plan" clearly stated that, in principle, the peripheral areas of big cities will no longer be planning new dairy product processing projects. □