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| Current Status of China’s Meat Food Traceability Standards |
| LI Jianghua, SUN Xiaoyu, ZHANG Peng, SI Dinghua, WANG Xueqi |
| School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China |
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Abstract Food safety events associated with clenbuterol and mad cow disease have aggravated public concern over the quality and safety of meat products. Therefore, it is very urgent to establish a systematic, professional, standardized meat food traceability system in order to guarantee of the traceability of meat foods served on dinner tables. In this paper, the development and composition of China’ meat food traceability system are described and the mandatory and recommended meat food traceability standards currently effective in the country are reviewed. Moreover, some existing problems are discussed and possible solutions to the problems are proposed such as clarifying the responsibility of the main bodies that formulate standards for each link along the traceability chain and giving priority to revising the current traceability standards for animal farming and meat processing.
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2017, Vol. 31 
