Due to the food incidents occurred in Guangdong recent years, such as Fake wine killing 9, Sudan Red incident of KFC, etc., Guangdong is drafting rules to regulate food recalls and evaluating food safety inspection.

The draft rules were on the carpet at the 9th Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Guangdong Province on Nov 27th.

The draft rules include recalling foods that were unsafe or with hidden trouble and establishing food safety accident emergency mechanism.

--Government at county level and above should compile emergency plan on food incident.
--Establishing food safety information reporting and publishing system
--Food inspection section will not only collect, report, analyze and publish related information, but also promptly report to other sections.
--Food producer should set up real and complete production record
--For food seller, the system of food inspection and archive management should be set up.

Editor: Donald