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China to reassess food safety supervision system (2) |
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17:40, July 20, 2007 |
"Food safety is not an issue of a certain nation, but a global issue," said Li, adding that China had established cooperation on product safety mechanisms with a lot of countries and regions, including the European Union, the U.S., Japan and the Republic of Korea.
In the first half of the year, more than 99 percent of the Chinese foods exported to the U.S., the EU and Japan were up to standard. "But we do have a number of problems in food safety as a lot of small manufacturers run in poor production conditions, with unstable product quality," said Li.
The government would strengthen monitoring of small workshops, which were widely scattered and had a 10-percent market share, and ordered shutdown of those producing substandard and fake food, said Li.
The quality control official, who blasted foreign media for exaggerating food safety problems earlier this week, also said he "welcomes scrutiny from the media" as the government told officials to listen to media suggestions, which was believed to be helpful for the government to improve its work.
The government pays great attention to addressing flaws in product quality, especially the quality of food products, said Li.
China has long had the tradition of taking samples of staple goods and products concerning health and environmental protection for examination and announcing the results to the public.
Source: Xinhua
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