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Consumers have low confidence in food safety
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-07-19 09:57 Consumer's confidence index over all kinds of food
security is below 50 percent, said Huang Hai, assistant minister of commerce in
Beijing on Monday at a press conference on food security.
A customer chooses
soft drinks in a supermarket in Shanghai in this June 27, 2005 photo.
Chinese consumer's confidence index on all kinds of food security is below
50%, the government said. [newsphoto] | About 8 percent of domestic food cannot reach the national qualification
standards for food security, and some 7 percent of vegetable products exceed the
standards for pesticide residue, Huang said.
In recent years, thanks to some effective measures taken by the government to
enhance supervision over food security, the general situation of food security
concerning vegetables, meat, grains, fruits, dairy products, aquatic products
and other food has turned better, he said.
"But the domestic food security situation is still severe," he said, noting
some new types of food security problems such as the cancer-causing Sudan I red
dye.
The red dye was first discovered early March this year in a pepper sauce made
by a Heinz subsidiary, the Heinz Meiweiyuan Food Co. based in Guangzhou, capital
of Guangdong Province in south China. A month later China's state quality
watchdog spotted the cancer-causing Sudan I in 88 kinds of food and food
additives produced by 30 Chinese companies.
The supervision work over food security is still weak in suburbs and rural
areas, Huang said, expressing the country's determination to improve food
quality through legislative means, green market authentication and improvement
of food security credit files.
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