The Zhejiang (eastern China province) government has taken action to institute an index measure the quality of the food from this province. It will be a comprehensive index that this correlated with the quality of each particular food staple and will be posted on the local governments website, according to the provinces Food and Drug Administration officials.
The authorities plan to examine different foods throughout Zhejiang province on a regular basis to make the index truely representative. The concept came to light after a four month nation wide campagin to improve qualilty of food safety that was launched last August in China.
The targeted items will be farm produce, processed food, catering sector, pork and imported andd exported foods.
At present it would be nice to get more clarity of the index and how it will be measured. Hopefully we will get more informationon the workings of the index to understand its true value. If nothing else it certainly has to be a step in the right direction for monitoring food safety.
It will be interesting to see if other provinces follow.Â
Source: (Sharon Lee)
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