Weekly Review of Food Hot News(0905-0911)

Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day of 2016 is drawing near. CFDA issued a notice about strengthening supervision of food safety during the 2 festivals, investigating and treating hidden danger of food safety risks, and taking strict precautions against major food safety incidents, in order to guarantee food safety and physical health of the broad masses of the people effectively during festivals.

On September 6th, CFDA issued the result of food sampling inspection recently and notified the information of 10 batches of unqualified foods including 1 batch of candy, 1 batch of potatoes & puffed food, 7 batches of fruits & products and 1 batch of tea & products.

Some media reported that 2 kinds of mooncake in 4 samples purchased online were inspected with sodium cyclamate recently. Most producers of private mooncake had no relevant hygienic license and business qualification, and food safety was relied on conscientiousness. Experts expressed concern about the matter and considered that consumers should not be addicted to “handmade and additive free”. In addition, some sellers purchased fillings in the market for handmade mooncake which was actually not “handmade”, and cannot achieve the goal of “additive free”. What's more, some so-called private mooncake were actually made in factory and sold to online store of WeChat.