CIQ Logo
26 07 2007It looks like CIQ China (China Inspection and Quarantine) has decided that a way to tackle the China Food Safety Crisis is by forcing all producers approved by CIQ to place stickers containing its official logo in all master cartons, some producers in China say the CIQ logo must also be imprinted on the retail packs.
Please note that by Chinese law only approved CIQ producers are able to export edible products overseas.
My point here has to do with effort / reward meaning the effort is going to be considerable and I honestly have to say the rewards would be questionable. In other words I don’t think they are solving the real problem.
Why are they not solving the real problem? Because plant X which is CIQ certified and has all sorts of different international certificates could still be buying product from factory Y which doesn’t have any of the aforementioned. The only thing factory X has to do is to spare a couple of cartons stickered with the CIQ logo for factory Y to pack the product, same scenario will apply to retail packs.
So the final objective which is to stop noncertified facilities from packing products for export might not be totally achieved.
My long time mentor once told me customers you can always find however good reliable suppliers are hard to get a hold of. Here at Noon International, we have spent more than 30 years developing our suppliers in China and to this day we keep working with them on how to do things in a better fashion trying to exceed our customers’ demands.
Does this mean we are old fashioned traders in a world where reverse internet bid is a common way to do business?
What I think this means, is that we really CARE and have a high level of TRUST with our suppliers in China other might call this TRUE RELATIONSHIPS.
Does this make our products from China be safer? You bet it does.
As for the CIQ logo, the saga will continue…
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It is true that some facilities who are certified by CIQ and have different certificates by third party used to buy products from unregistered facilities or facilities unqualified by their customers. However, now this becomes too risky to be worth doing because the punishment will be very severe if CIQ find out the fact and what they buy only occupy a part of their business. CIQ will order any facilities who violate CIQ regulation or whose products are rejected for safety problems to stop production before being reapproved by CIQ, while suspending their licenses for exportation, which is normally for three months.
However, I still doubt if some of the facilities would export products from noncertified facilities or facilities unqualified by their customers when they believe the products are safe by testing report by their own lab, especially for products from last season for which they signed a contract with their customers without notifying the customer of the true manufacturer. But it will not be a big quantity and this will increase their cost too because they will have to truck the products back and repack in their own facilities.
Local CIQ officials used to encourage local facilities for exportation but now tend to be conservative because several chief officials have been removed from their positions due to safety incidents occurred abroad.
CIQ is responsible for all the farming, processing, manufacturing and export. The yield for each field is estimated when it registered.
I reviewed the black list in CIQ that most of the violations happened are from unregistered factories who exported their products with incorrect names of products.