Analysis of Food Safety and Quality in China in 2017
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In this paper, the unqualified status of various types of foods throughout China in 2017 was sorted out through collecting and statistically analyzing the information on food safety supervision and sampling from the provinces nationwide and the official website of the State Food and Drug Administration. A focus was placed on the analysis of foods with a low pass rate and more problems, and these items were subjected to statistical analysis and categorization, to put forward a series of recommendations for accurate and precise food safety supervision and targeted sampling. The results showed that in 2017, a total of 460,859 batches of foods were sampled in 34 major categories (including catering foods and edible agricultural products). Among which, 9713 batches were unqualified, the unqualified rate reached 2.11%, and the unqualified items reached 251. It seems that the overall food safety situation in China remains stable and steadily getting better. The unqualified products mainly came from farmers' markets and small and micro-processing companies in food supply and distribution chain. The categories of foods ranked in the top 10 unqualified rate were convenience food, frozen drinks, beverages, alcoholic drinks, cakes, roasted and baked goods including seeds and nuts, special dietary foods, fruit products, vegetable products and catering foods. The use of food additives beyond the legal scope or limit and microbiological contamination remained the main cause of unqualified foods in our country.
