Article 37 An agricultural product wholesale market shall establish or entrust an agricultural product quality safety test institution to test the quality safety of the agricultural products sold in the market by random inspection; when finding any inconformity with the agricultural product quality safety criteria, it shall require the seller to immediately stop the sale and report to the administrative department of agriculture.

An enterprise engaging in sale of agricultural products shall, for the agricultural products it sells, set up and improve the rules on inspection and acceptance of purchased goods; any agricultural product that is found from the inspection to fail to comply with the quality safety criteria shall not be sold.

Article 38 The state encourages entities and individuals to carry out public supervision over the agricultural product quality safety. Any entity or individual shall have the right to impeach, expose or accuse any act violating the present Law. After receipt of relevant impeachment, exposure or accusation, the relevant department shall deal with the case in a timely manner.

Article 39 The administrative department of agriculture of the people's government at the county level or above may, in its agricultural product quality safety supervision and inspection, make on-site inspections on the agricultural products under production or on sale, investigate and know about the relative information on agricultural product quality safety, consult to and photocopy the records and other information concerning agricultural product quality safety; and shall have the right to seal up or distrain the agricultural products which are found from test to fail to comply with the agricultural product quality safety criteria.

Article 40 When an agricultural product quality safety accident occurs, the concerned entities and individuals shall take control measures and report to the local people's government at the township level and the administrative department of agriculture of the people's government at the county level in a timely manner. The organ receiving the report shall deal with the accident in a timely manner and report to the people's government at the higher level and other relative departments. When a significant agricultural product quality safety accident occurs, the administrative department of agriculture shall inform the food and drug administrative department at the same level of the accident in a timely manner.

Article 41 In the agricultural product quality safety supervision and administration, if the administrative department of agriculture of a people's government at the county level or above finds that an agricultural product is under any of the circumstances listed in Article 33 of the present Law, it shall, on the basis of the requirements of the system for ascertaining liabilities of agricultural product quality safety, find out the liable persons and decide punishment in light of the law or propose punishment suggestions.

Article 42 An imported agricultural product must be inspected in accordance with the agricultural product quality safety criteria prescribed by the state. If the relevant agricultural product quality safety criteria have not been formulated, the department concerned shall formulate them in light of the law in a timely manner and may, before finishing formulating such criteria, inspect the imported agricultural product by referring to the relevant foreign criteria designated by the relevant department of the state.

Chapter VII Legal Liabilities

Article 43 If any agricultural product quality safety supervisory and administrative staff member does not carry out his supervisory duties in light of the law or abuses his power, he shall be given administrative sanctions according to law.