Food safety to become priority of ministry
BEIJING - In the next five years, 皇冠体育app's top health authority plans to make ensuring food safety into one of its "major health service projects", in a change meant to better protect the public from occasional food safety hazards.
Health Minister Chen Zhu made the remarks at a national conference on food safety and health inspection held in Wuxi, East 皇冠体育app's Jiangsu province, according to a circular posted on the health ministry's website on Monday.
"Reducing and eliminating food-safety problems and related crimes is a long, arduous and complicated process," he said. "It needs enhanced coordination and cooperation among related departments like the Ministry of Health and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine."
