National food safety standards released

According to China Voices News and Newspaper Abstracts, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health jointly issued the National Food Safety Standard "Maximum Residue Limits of Pesticides in Foods", which will be the pesticides in China's regulatory foods. The only mandatory national standard for residues.

The newly issued "Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Foods" will be implemented from March 1st next year. Previously, 6 national standards and 10 agricultural industry standards concerning the maximum residue limits for pesticides in foods will be abolished at the same time. Zheng Fengtian, deputy dean of the Agricultural and Rural Development Institute of Renmin University of China, said that the past coexistence, cross-cutting, and aging problems of pesticide residue standards will be effectively resolved.

Zheng Fengtian: Let us state that food safety is sub-supervised, the source of production (return) is the agricultural sector, and then processing may be the quality supervision department. This time all the standards combined with the sub-supervised departments come together to negotiate and avoid the past. Respectively.

The new standard has established 2293 residue limits for 322 pesticides in 10 categories of agricultural products and foods, which basically covers the major agricultural products for daily consumption of our residents. Zheng Fengtian said that the new national standard fully takes into account the actualities of all aspects of China's food supervision and further links with the international community.

Zheng Fengtian: Past pesticides, the Ministry of Agriculture is the competent unit of pesticides, the Ministry of Agriculture may consider a little more from the perspective of production. This time, from the perspective of food safety, how much of each food residue should be, and the overall coordination with the Ministry of Health, from a safe production point of view, it may be a better progress.