China to expand food contaminant monitoring

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　　A new work plan, released on Friday by the Ministry² of Health, focuses this year's food safety efforts on grains, vegetables, meat, dairy, baby food products and illegal additives³.

　　China has reported a series of heavy metal pollution incidents over the past few years. In one serious case that occurred in Liuyang of central China's Hunan Province in 2009, cadmium-containing pollutants⁴ from a chemical plant affected⁵ more than 500 people and polluted the land within a radius⁶ of 500 to 1,200 meters of the plant.

　　Under the plan, the ministry will hone a mechanism⁷ to monitor and report food-borne diseases while regulating epidemiologic research on food safety incidents.

　　Also on the agenda of this year's food safety work is the drafting and revision of various regulations, including one stipulating⁸ the maximum amount of pathogenic microbes contained in food products.

　　In addition, the ministry will improve methods to check illegal additives and publicize blacklists of such additives.

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