The 2015 national food safety publicity week started in Beijing. Attended the starting ceremony of the ministry of agriculture agricultural products quality and safety supervision bureau deputy director Cheng Jingen, said the ministry of agriculture organized to carry out the routine monitoring of produce quality safety risk (monitoring) in the first half year, the quality and safety of agricultural products in China continue to stability according to the results.

It is said, in the first half of this year, organized by 91 testing agencies of the Ministry of agriculture, they carried out two quarters routine monitoring (risk monitoring) of quality and safety, sampling a total of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), 152 cities, four categories of edible agricultural products, 96 varieties, 20948 samples, 94 detection indexes, the overall qualified rate was 96.2%.

The source of food safety is agricultural product, and the basement is in agriculture. According to the Cheng Jingen. In recent years, the ministry of agriculture, according to a unified deployment of food safety commission under the state council, jointly with the relevant departments, firmly grasp the goal of “make efforts to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products, do not occur major accidents, vigorously promote agricultural and veterinary drug use and residues, prohibited substances”, make efforts on punishing illegally added, livestock and poultry slaughter and seven other special rectification actions, sustainable tackling all outstanding issues, strengthening the system construction of the grass-roots supervision, promote the national agricultural products quality and safety, strictly controlled drug, controlled fertilizer, controlling additive, and achieved positive results.

The next step, Cheng Jingen stressed that “agriculture ministry will continue to adhere to pay equal attention to ‘production' and ‘supervision’ and actively promote the transformation of agricultural development, vigorously develop the scale and standardized planting and breeding, strictly protect agricultural habitat environment, investment supervision and production control, strengthen supervision and inspection, and crackdown illegal and criminal acts, fully implement the 'four most stringent' requirements, and earnestly safeguard the 'people tongue'".