Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 24 (Reporters Gu Tiancheng and Li Heng) Reporters learned from the National Health Commission press conference on the 24th that my country has formulated and issued a total of 1,563 national food safety standards, involving more than 23,000 safety indicators. Covering all 30 major categories and 340 small categories of food consumed by Chinese residents.
Tian Jianxin, deputy director of the Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the National Health Commission, said that the current national food safety standards that our country has formulated include the main health hazard factors that affect safety, covering the entire process from food raw materials, production and processing to final products. The process covers the entire chain from farm to table.
According to reports, the 85 national food safety standards released by our country this year reflect more effective risk prevention and control and expanded standard coverage. For example, in the newly revised standards for metal materials and products used in food contact, in order to prevent harmful substances from migrating into food, the new standard expands the impurities and alloying elements controlled by the original standard from 5 categories to 13 categories; food contact materials and products In the ink standards, heavy metal limit regulations are set for printing inks used in disposable paper cups, food packaging bags, etc., filling the gap in such standards in my country.
