Inner Mongolia abolishes 18 local standards on food

By Liu Yufen (chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-04-15

North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Health and Family Planning Commission issued a notice on April 10, its sixth in 2014, to discontinue 18 local standards on food safety and to continue and revise another two food standards.

The 18 abolished standards involve products and testing methods such as the distillation of milk wine, high performance liquid chromatography for measuring aflatoxin M1 content in dairies and in dairy products and test regulations of evaporated carrot flakes or pellets, while the revised standards concern parched rice and jerked beef.

The abolishment and revisions were carried out in conformity with the Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China and a notice released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission in 2013, which asked the local authorities to check their standards on food safety.

The notice is expected to further standardize food safety workings in Inner Mongolia.