Recently, an inspection station for food health and residual pesticides has opened in a Xining supermarket. It is the first inspection station to open in the province, where tests for food safety and traces of residual pesticides will be made on behalf of the citizens. The whole service is offered for free and guarantees everyone that the food on the table is healthy.
The establishment of the inspection station is an initiative of the city's Northern region Food, Pesticide and Market Supervision Bureau. Two types of quick tests were used, one for residual pesticide and one for residual veterinary medicines. It relies on the PRC code GB5009.199 and is a step towards high accuracy and high speed testing. The inspection station emphasises residual pesticide testing, veterinary medicine testing and illegal food additive testing. Whether it is fruit, vegetables, meat or prepackaged food, bulk purchase or a single purchase, everything can be tested in the laboratory if people have any suspicions. Inspections can mostly be done on the spot. The quickest results can be obtained within 3 minutes and the whole set of tests takes only 15 minutes to conduct.
