Restore consumer confidence home and abroad on food safty

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China, recently in the media spotlight for food safety issues, was put well on track to better food safety, as the country went all out to ensure the food safety and restore consumer confidence home and abroad.

It issued the first white paper on food safety on Aug. 17 and put Vice Premier Wu Yi to head a high-profile panel on product quality and food safety issues, followed by a string of efforts made by various government organs in the recent month to crack down on food safety issue. On Aug. 31, the quality watchdog officially introduced the nation's landmark recall systems for unsafe food products and toys amid efforts to improve food safety, charging producers with prior and major responsibilities for preventing and eliminating unsafe food and toys.

Food safety became a rising concern among Chinese citizens after a series of food contamination accidents occurred across the country in recent months. Last November, the country's food safety watchdog found that seven companies were producing red-yolk eggs contaminated with dangerous red Sudan dyes, supposed to be used in the leather and fabric industries, but banned for food use. And Shanghai police arrested three people who were adding three to four grams of banned steroid drug to each ton of pig feed to increase lean meat. More than 300 people fell ill after eating the meat. Even international fast food giant KFC was accused of adding cancer-causing Sudan 1 to its roast chicken wings. So the food safety is really a serious problem.

Food is China's biggest industry with the 2006 output estimated at 2.4 trillion yuan (315.8 billion U.S. dollars), according to the China National Food Industry Association, and eating is vitally important for Chinese people. Meanwhile, there were bitter stories when people fell victim to food safety threats. In overseas market, a growing list of substandard exports from China since March, ranging from pet foods to drugs, toothpastes, toys, aquatic products and tyres, has sparked wide concern about "Made in China" labels.

There have been worries about China's supervision over food safety, as at least five ministries were put in charge of food safety issues and coordination among them was no easy job.Vice Health Minister Wang Longde said earlier new laws were needed to strengthen food safety supervision by coordinating the duties of relevant government agencies. By the end of June, the government has weeded out 5,631 unqualified small producers, forced 8,814 producers to stop production, and asked 5,385 companies to improve their production, the paper said. The number of small food producers would drop by 50 percent by 2010, said the quality supervision administration after the country published its first-ever five-year plan on food safety in May, and the government wants to ensure that by 2012 no uncertified producers remain.

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