China's State Council has established a Food Safety Commission according to the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China.

At a recent working conference, China's National Office of Food Safety asked that decisive measures be taken to completely remove all possible risks from the country's food market.

Despite reports that there have been two mercury poisoning cases related to its Sprite product in the past three months, Beijing Coca-Cola has declared that no mercury was involved in the company's production process and the drink must have been poisoned by some unknown person.

With the approach of the Chinese New Year, Hangzhou has released a food safety index to meet the consumer demand for good quality food products.

In a reprise of the melamine scandals of 2009, the Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Joint Conference Office has announced that the Shanghai Panda Dairy Company has been punished by the local food supervision department for producing and selling dairy products contaminated with melamine.

News from Wuhan Municipal Department of Industry and Commerce is that a food safety credit rating system is being extensively promoted in Wuhan.

Lei Chuang, a Hepatitis B virus carrier in China, has successfully obtained a health certificate, a pass that allows him to work in the food industry.