[Overview and analysis of food chemical contaminant monitoring in 2000-2009 in China]

Abstract

Objective: To know about food safety situation and provide scientific data for the development of food safety policies and laws.

Method: Monitoring task was carried out in some areas of China by some measures and steps such as formulating plan, compiling SOP, holding technical training, having quality controls, data collection, checking and statistics of food chemical contaminant monitoring.

Results: 14 categories of foods and 129 chemicals were cumulatively surveyed in 16 provincial areas for ten years. A database with more than 1.05 million monitoring data was established. Monitoring results showed that food safety situation in China was generally stable and gradually good, but also problems of some food safety were found. Monitoring data had been used for alerts, supervision, risk assessment and standard setting of food safety.

Conclusion: The monitoring for 10 years knew about the contamination levels and dynamic trend of contaminants in food, provided scientific data for the development of food safety policies and laws, and laid the foundation for national food contamination monitoring.