Ministry of Agriculture issues notice about carrying out administration pilot work of edible agro-products certification
According to the relevant requirements in “Law of Agro-products Quality and Safety” and “Opinion of Ministry of Agriculture and China Food and Drug Administration about Strengthening Supervision and Administration Work of the Edible Agro-products”, and further accelerate the establishment of cohesive mechanism of producing area exit administration and market access administration with qualified quality the edible agro-products as the main content, Ministry of Agriculture decides to carry out the administration pilot work of edible agro-products certification at some provinces first. Ministry of Agriculture gives preference to provinces including Hebei, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Shandong, Hunan, Shanxi which possess certain working foundation and large amount of production and supply of the agro-products to carry out the administration pilot work of major edible agro-products certification, insists on combining the whole advancement with key advancement, actively explores the effective mode of the administration pilot work of edible agro-products certification according to the requirements of “Administrative measures for edible agro-products certification”, and further changes the supervision mode of the agro-products quality and safety, innovates the business collaboration mechanism among government departments and fully promotes the supervision ability and level of quality and safety of agro-products in china.
