China will overhaul its current food safety standards, integrating new specifications and weeding out others in a move largely aimed at avoiding repetition and contradiction, the Ministry of Health said on January 30.
By the end of 2015, the ministry will have basically completed its work on the mandatory contents of China's current 1,900 national food standards, 1,200 local standards and 3,000 food industrial standards, said a statement.
In the meantime, efforts will be made to revise the standards on food additives, food labels and food contaminants, biotoxins and pesticide residues.
The ministry will also accelerate the formulation and modification of the national standard of food safety, so as to fill certain important gaps in the existing version, resolve inconsistent standards and enhance the standards' scientific base. |