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4 Strengthen agri-food quality and safety monitoring

o ensure food safety, the AFA annually makes a spot check of pesticide residues in agri-food such as fruits and
Tvegetables, rice and tea in fields and goods yards, especially high-risk agri-food. To ensure the safety and quality
of crops, the Rapid Screening Mass Spectrometry Technique is also adopted. Additionally, the edible crops grown in
areas with high pollution potential and containing heavy metals that are found uncompliant will be eradicated and
destroyed immediately.

Maintain the safety quality of domestic rice
Consisting of four lines of defense (i.e., field-stage inspection, collection-stage inspection, storage-stage
inspection of public stock and storage-stage inspection of private stock ), the rice production safety management
system is established to regulate the safety of paddy sources; in addition, spot checks of heavy metals in public
stock are continuously implemented to ensure the safety of domestic public stock.

Create a three-level quality control
A three-level quality control system, which encompasses registration, training, safety control and pesticide
inspection, is established for orchards for export and production clusters of fruits, vegetables, miscellaneous grains
and special crops. To ensure compliance with standards for domestic sales and export, farmers, farmers’ groups
and agricultural enterprises cultivate crops in groups or collaboratively and adopt collective quality control,
management and branding.

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