Overall Level of Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Remained Stable in the Third Quarter

From July to September 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture organized and carried out the third-quarter routine national monitoring of agricultural product quality and safety (risk monitoring), covering 94 parameters across 84 varieties of 4 major categories of products - vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry products, and aquatic products - in 152 large and medium-sized cities across 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), with 11,315 samples tested and an overall pass rate of 97.7%. Among them, the monitoring pass rates for vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry products, and aquatic products were 97.0%, 98.9%, 99.3% and 95.0% respectively, and the overall level of agricultural product quality and safety remained stable.

The Ministry of Agriculture has notified all localities of the monitoring results, supervised the provinces (autonomous regions) with relatively low pass rates, and required them to carry out targeted follow-up supervision and spot checks on agricultural product quality and safety in response to the problems found in monitoring, to investigate and punish non-compliant products and their production units in accordance with the law, to carry out in depth special rectification actions on pesticides and pesticide use, "clenbuterol," aquaculture antibacterial drugs, aquatic products, and crackdowns on counterfeit agricultural materials, to rigorously investigate and crack down on problems such as illegal addition and irregular drug use in vegetable production and livestock and poultry and aquaculture, and to ensure agricultural product quality and safety.