The year 2018 witnessed the establishment of State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). Food safety was resolutely promoted and intensity of food sampling inspection also continued to promote. In 2018, SAMR has conducted nationwide sampling inspection on 3,355,882 batches of food (including health food and food additives), which is an increase of 991,802 batches over the whole of 2017 (2,364,080 batches), with a growth rate of 42%. In terms of the pass rate of sampling inspection, the overall rate in 2018 is 97.58%, which is 0.13 percentage points lower than that in 2017 (97.71%).
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