On April 28, Opinion on Further Improving Food and Drug Traceability System (Draft
for Comment) issued by China Food and Drug Administration indicated that it
is the corporate entity’ responsibilities to establish the food and drug
traceability system and encouraged the production and management enterprises to
apply the information technology for building the food and drug traceability
system; encouraged the information technology enterprises, as the third parties,
to provide the professional service for products traceability. All or different
levels of food and drug supervision departments shall not compulsively require
the food and drug production and management enterprises to accept the
traceability services provided by the professional information technology
enterprises appointed.