65 items of national food safety passed deliberation

The 10th director meeting of the first food safety national standards review committee was held in Beijing several days ago. The meeting reviewed and passed 65 national food safety standards such as “Food Additive Use Standards” and “Hygienic Regulations for Food Business Processes”.

Chen Xiaohong, deputy director of the committee and deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said at the meeting that 2014 is a crucial year for the complete integration of national food safety standards, and members of the National Standards Review Committee should strengthen their sense of responsibility and do a good job of standard integration. Review work, improve work efficiency, implement responsibility system, do a good job of information disclosure, and lay a good foundation for the implementation of standards.

According to reports, the 65 national food safety standards reviewed and approved at the meeting included “Standards for the Use of Food Additives”, “Hygienic Regulations for Food Business Processes”, “Sugar”, “Aquatic Spices”, and “Total Arsenic and Inorganic Arsenic in Food”. Measurements etc.