The General Office of the State Council recently issued “The 2014 Main Task Arrangement on Food Safety” which brings up certification activity and use of certification mark for “pollution-free agricultural products,” “green food,” “organic product,” “halal food” and other food as well as agricultural products should be standardized; and the use of GMO labeling should be regulated, so that consumers’ ability to identity food and products’ quality mark and certification could be enhanced.

The “Task Arrangement” also proposes to establish food origin traceability system and quality labeling system, accelerate the establishment of the “from farm to fork” traceability system, start the study and drafting of administrative measures for tracking important edible agricultural products, and steadily promote the establishment of traceability system for agricultural product safety, meat and vegetables circulation, alcohol circulation, and dairy product safety. With the establishment of the traceability system in the future, food “identity information” will gradually achieve traceability, and each agricultural product will have its own identity.