(3) to disseminate knowledge of food hygiene and nutrition, provide appraisals of food hygiene and publicize the existing situation in food hygiene

Food hygiene

CHAPTER VII FOOD HYGIENE SUPERVISION

CHAPTER III HYGIENE OF FOOD ADDITIVES

CHAPTER V FORMULATION OF FOOD HYGIENE STANDARDS AND MEASURES FOR FOOD

Article 11 The production, marketing and use of food additives must conform to the hygiene standards for use of food additives and the hygiene control regulations the food additives that do not conform to the hygiene standards and the hygiene control regulations may not be marketed and used.

Food Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 30 Imported foods, food additives and containers, packagings, utensils and equipment used for food must comply with the national hygiene standards and the hygiene control regulations.

Article 2 The State institutes a system of food hygiene supervision.

(1) to provide monitoring, inspection and technical guidance for food hygiene

Article 12 Containers, packagings, utensils and equipment used for food must conform to the hygiene standards and the hygiene control regulations.

Article 18 Enterprises engaged in food production or marketing shall improve their own system for food hygiene control, appoint full time or part time workers to control food hygiene and strengthen inspection of the foods they produce or market.

Article 33 The duties for food hygiene supervision shall be as follows

(8) to take charge of other matters that concern food hygiene supervision.

Food producers or marketers may not forge, alter or lend the hygiene licence.

(12) other foods that do not conform to the standards and requirements for food hygiene.

Article 14 The administrative department of public health under the State Council shall formulate or approve and promulgate the national hygiene standards, hygiene control regulations and inspection procedures for food, food additives, the containers, packagings, utensils and equipment used for food, the detergents and disinfectants used for washing food or utensils and equipment used for food, and the tolerances for contaminants and radioactive substances in food.

Article 24 Food, food additives and containers, packagings and other utensils used specially for food may be dispatched from factory or sold only after their producers have carried out inspection and found them to be up to the standards according to the hygiene standards and the hygiene control regulations.

Article 29 The administrative departments of industry and commerce shall be responsible for the control of food hygiene on urban and rural markets the administrative departments of public health shall be responsible for the supervision and inspection of food hygiene.

Food hygiene supervisors shall be obliged to keep confidential any technical data provided by the producers or marketers.

The agencies for food hygiene supervision set up by the administrative departments of railways and communications shall exercise their functions and duties for food hygiene supervision jointly prescribed by the administrative departments of public health under the State Council and other relevant departments under the State Council.

Article 5 The State encourages and protects the social supervision exercised by public organizations and individuals over food hygiene.

It shall implement food hygiene policies and look after and inspect the country's sanitation facilities and drinking water supply

Article 8 In the process of food production or marketing, the requirements for hygiene stated below shall be conformed to

Article 35 Food hygiene supervisors shall carry out the tasks assigned to them by the administrative department of public health.

The Food Hygiene Law of the People's Republic of China (for tial implementation) shall be unnulled on the same date.

The Health Bureau appeals to citizens for avoiding being exposed to birds and pay attention to personal and food hygiene.

Article 36 The administrative department of public health under the State Council and those of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the Central Government may, if the need arises, assign qualified units as units for food hygiene inspection these units shall undertake food hygiene inspection and provide inspection reports.

Article 17 The departments in charge of control of food production or marketing of the people's governments at various levels shall strengthen control of food hygiene and oversee the implementation of this Law.

Article 1 This Law is enacted for the purpose of ensuring food hygiene, preventing food contamination and harmful substances from injuring human health, safeguarding the health of the people and improving their physical fitness.

Other relevant departments under the State Council shall, within the scope of their respective functions and duties, be responsible for control of food hygiene.

Food hygiene supervisors shall enforce laws impartially, be loyal to their duties and may not seek personal gain by taking advantage of their office.

While carrying out their tasks, food hygiene supervisors may obtain information from the food producers or marketers, request necessary data, enter production or marketing premises to inspect them, and get free samples in accordance with regulations.

Article 3 The administrative department of public health under the State Council shall be in charge of supervision and control of food hygiene throughout the country.

Article 28 Persons who run a food market of any type shall be responsible for the food hygiene control of the market, set up necessary public sanitary facilities in the market and maintain a good sanitary environment.

(i) Hygiene improvements

Poor hygiene conditions.

In the absence of the national hygiene standards for such imports, the importer must provide the hygiene evaluation data prepared by the health authorities or organization of the exporting country (region) to the frontier agencies for hygiene supervision and inspection of imported food for examination and inspection and such data shall also be reported to the administrative department of public health under the State Council for approval.

Article 15 If the State has not formulated hygiene standards for a certain food, the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the Central Government may establish local hygiene standards for that food and report them to the administrative department of public health under the State Council and the competent standardization administration department under the State Council for the record.

In addition, while food hygiene, traceability, and labeling are improving, any amount of negligence when it comes to food safety could have far reaching consequences in the complex and interconnected global food chain. Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards.

The food hygiene supervisors appointed by departments in charge of railways and communications agencies shall be issued with the certificates by the competent authorities at a higher level.

Whoever, in violation of this Law, produces or markets food which is not up to the hygiene standards, thus causing a serious accident of food poisoning or resulting in a disease caused by food borne bacteria, and seriously harming human health, or adulterates food he produces or markets with toxic or harmful non food raw materials, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.

Health care activities in the country are implemented through national targeted programmes on the prevention of dangerous diseases, on the prevention of HIV AIDS and on food hygiene and safety.

17 women's groups have received training in nutritional health and food hygiene, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health (raising village nutrition levels, providing safe drinking water in the village).

Hygiene related diseases are increasing.