On October 10, 2012, the Ministry of Healthy (now the National Health and Family Planning Commission, NHFPC) started reviewing existing standards on quality and safety of edible agricultural products, food hygiene, and food quality, as well as mandatory standards for food-related products. Expert teams reviewed standards in eight categories (food products, physical-chemical testing methods, micro-organism inspection and testing method, procedures and methods for toxicological assessment of food, special dietary foods, food additives, food related products, and good practice in production and operation).
