12.5% of drinks don鈥檛 meet standards
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MORE than 12 percent of drinks on sale failed to meet national standards during the first half of the year, the China Food and Drug Administration said yesterday.
This was the highest failure rate among 24 foodstuffs tested by the administration.
Other poor performers were ice cream and aquatic products — with at least 7 percent not meeting standards. For drinks the figure was 12.5 percent.
Problems encountered included illegal food additives, chemical residues and bacteria.
Inspectors said that of 33,252 batches of foodstuff samples tested, 1,236 did not meet requirements.
Dairy products were the top performer with almost all meeting standards — only two out of 1,391 batches failed. Next best were eggs and food additives, with quality rates of 99.8 and 99.5 percent respectively.
Most other categories had quality rates ranging from 93 to 99 percent.
For infant formula, often the subject of public concern, 2.1 percent of samples had food safety problems, while 3.9 percent had packaging and labeling issues.
The top five problems detected were: excessive microorganisms — mainly bacteria (accounting for 35 percent of the substandard products); poor quality (31.9 percent); illegal or excessive food additives (19.3 percent); heavy metal pollution (12.7 percent); and chemical residue (2.8 percent).
Manufacturers of substandard products have been told to remove these from sale and recall those already sold. The authority also ordered those producers to determine the source of the problems and take measures to ensure food safety.
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