The Chinese government plans to spend more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to certify food hygiene, said a senior official. There are 2,862 county-level quality inspection centers in China, and only 1,100 have the ability to administer food-safety tests, according to Wu Jinsheng, director of the technology department at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. This number could double with more government involvement under the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011–2015). The government also intends to increase the number of qualified personnel to oversee inspections from 93,000 to more than 100,000 by the end of the Plan. By the end of 2010, the government had established 180 inspection centers and was building 148 more. Also by the end of 2010, 209 national-level inspection labs with equipment totaling CNY 14 billion ($2.1 billion) had been established, and 100 more were under construction.

Source: China Daily