According to China network, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference in August 2nd. Spokesman Shen Danyang said that since 2010, the five batches of the Ministry of Commerce and finance have supported 58 pilot cities in the country to carry out the construction of the traceability system of meat and vegetables and support the construction of the traceability system of Chinese medicinal materials in 18 provinces and cities. At present, more than 15 thousand enterprises have built the traceability system of meat and vegetables, covering more than 32 million business households. It has initially formed a network of tracing the country and connecting urban and rural areas. It has played a positive role in promoting the food safety management model and the guarantee mode innovation and building the safe consumption environment.
According to Shen Danyang, according to the State Council's deployment, the Ministry of Commerce recently agreed with the Ministry of finance to support Shanghai, Shandong, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xiamen to carry out the demonstration of the construction of important products traceability system.
This demonstration work mainly includes four contents: first, to promote the upgrading of traceability system for Chinese herbal medicines in meat dishes. The key links are transformed by electronic settlement, popularizing and applying the more advanced and applicable Traceability Technology, optimizing the tracing process, and establishing the long effect mechanism of the sustainable operation of the traceability system.