Recently, entrusted by the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Standard group of the Secretariat of Sampling inspection and Monitoring of Food safety organized a seminar on the list of non-edible substances illegally added to food in Beijing. The conference invited 10 experts and scholars from the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the State Grain Administration and the Ministry of Public Security. The leaders of the food sampling inspection Department of aqSIQ attended the meeting and gave a speech, and the heads of the secretariat of the food safety sampling inspection and Monitoring of AQSIQ attended the meeting.

Conference, experts from the health system first reviewed the former ministry of health for non-food substances list job, then the experts leading the difficulty and confusion of the non-food substances list work, such as the consumption of material definitions and scope definition, collecting channel and how to choose a list of heated discussions and release procedures, etc.

Experts attending the meeting unanimously affirmed the urgency and necessity of revising the list of non-edible substances at present, and put forward opinions and suggestions on the difficulties and perplexities of the work related to the list of non-edible substances illegally added to food at present. Experts unanimously suggested that the next step should be to further discuss the scope of application, recognition principle and release procedure of the list of non-edible substances illegally added to food based on the definition of non-edible substances illegally added to food.