The Beijing Health Inspection Institute has announced that a new food safety standard will be enforced for food caterers from June 2013.
The standard will be applicable for restaurants,bakeries,shops selling snacks,drinks and desserts,canteens,as well as workplace kitchens across China.
Food hygiene will come under the spotlight as the new standards will help"better prevent and control food-borne diseases related to catering,"an official at the institute told the daily was stated in the Malaysian Insider website.
The announcement of the food safety standard for caterers comes in the wake of a five-year plan announced by China's Ministry of Health to upgrade food safety regulations in June this year.
This follows the launch of a food safety monitoring system by the China Food Safety Assessment Center in 2010,in which contamination was revealed to be a major cause of food poisoning in the country.
