The “food and drug safety ‘ blacklist ’ management regulations (consultation draft)” issued by China Food and Drug Administration on December 12, 2013 finished the consultation last month. The “food and drug safety ‘blacklist’ management regulations” is expected to be launched in the first half of this year.

From the “food and drug safety ‘ blacklist ’ management regulations (consultation draft)”, we can see that the draft has made clear and detailed provisions for the published information and the publishing approaches of the 'blacklist' and the punishment for the second illegality.

  The consultation draft also pointed out that the food and drug supervision and administration department at or above the county level shall establish food and drug safety “blacklist” in accordance with the requirements of these regulations, and CFDA will establish a 'blacklist' database to realize the sharing of information.