In the third half of 2021, the national market supervision departments have completed 2459894 batches of food safety supervision and sampling inspection according to related national food safety standards. Among them, 63611 batches of unqualified samplings were found, and the overall unqualified rate was 2.59%, with a year-on-year increase of 0.37%.

Analysis of Unqualified Food Categories

The supervision sampling unqualified rate of processed grain, edible oil and fat and its products, meat products, egg products and dairy products with large consumption was 0.92%, 1.35%, 1.34%, 0.33% and 0.15% respectively, which were all lower than the overall unqualified rate. Compared with the same period of 2020, the unqualified rates of 16 categories of foods including tea and its products, freezing drink, and edible oil and fat and its products have reduced, the unqualified rates of 16 categories of foods including edible agricultural products, roasted food and nuts products and liquor have increased.

Analysis of Unqualified Reasons

Excessive pesticide residues, microorganism contamination, excessive use of food additives and excessive veterinary residues accounted for 24.16%, 22.80%, 12.96% and 10.34% of the total unqualified samples respectively; substandard quality indicators accounted for 9.64% of the total unqualified samples; heavy metal pollution accounted for 9.19% of the total unqualified samples; organic pollution accounted for 7.44% of the total unqualified samples.

Regarding the unqualified samples found in the supervision and sampling inspection, the market supervision department has promptly announced the results of supervision and sampling inspection to the public, urged relevant production and operation enterprises to remove and recall the unqualified batches of the sampling inspection, strictly controlled the food safety risk, conducted verification and disposal in accordance with relevant regulations and published related information.

Comparasion of the Unqualified Rates of Main Food Categories in 2020 and 2021

Compared with the situation of food safety supervision and sampling inspection in the third half of 2020, the changes in the unqualified rates of main food categories are shown in the figure below.

Source: SAMR

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