In recent years exposed the food safety problem, its roots in addition to the relevant responsible person cynical, but also in lack of clear standards of food safety in our country, especially in the traditional food industry, the standard problem is particularly conspicuous.
Prior to the introduction of modern science and production of traditional food of our country is often knowing but not the why.

Traditional food confused inside to exactly have what ingredients and not anecdotes. Because of this, China's traditional food industry is difficult to formulate standards and because the standard is not clear, for businesses and consumers brought double confusion.

Recently rice wine "carcinogenic" event, for example, in yellow rice wine were detected to contain ethyl carbamate (EC). Urethane is food fermentation in the fermentation and storage process of naturally occurring substances, mainly by alcohol and urea and their decomposition reactions and formation. As a result of urethane containing virulence genes, the mice of long-term oral administration of these substances will produce various cancers. In 2007, the international agency for research on cancer will list it as "may cause cancer in humans". For EC content in food is allowed. At present, the various countries and inconclusive, some of the provisions of 0.4 mg / kg, while others allow 1 mg / kg.

In our country, food whether it contains ethyl carbamate, prior to this is for consumers to know. For enterprises, because of the existence of the standard of our country does not require detection of ethyl carbamate, nature also yielded to selectively forget EC.

Because of this, when EC oncogenic events is disclosed, related industries and enterprises also caught in the plight of honesty credit. From this point of speaking, the lack of standards for businesses and consumers are not good.

Clear food especially traditional food standards, can be described as imminent, because a lot of traditional food, and there is no clear standards. 8 departments such as the Ministry of Health recently released the national food safety standards of < the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" >, put forward the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period to speed up the development, the revised national standards for food safety, improve the national food safety standard management system. Programming > pointed out that China will fully clean up the integration of the existing food standards, before the end of 2015 basically completed the integration of the relevant standards and abolished.2015 years before the end of the year, formulation, to amend the meat, alcohol, vegetable oil, spices, infant food, dairy, aquatic products, drinks and so on of the main food product safety standards.

From the point of view of planning time, in three years time to complete our country food product safety standards, time can be described as tight, heavy task, institutions to manage the rapid advance of the standard formulation intentions can peep one spot.

The food industry standard formulation, is because of the heavy task, so not urgent. Lack of basic research of many traditional food in China, although some traditional food after hundreds of but first millennium stood the test of time, after dozens of generations of human trials, proved to be safe, but whether it is harmless to the human body, many of them lack of rigorous scientific data support, because don't know which of the components, of course, it would be very difficult to say clearly the impact on the human body.

Some traditional food in China, are often subject to regional restrictions, enterprise scale is small, it is difficult to have economic strength to conduct basic research. These foods still only rely on the experience of predecessors oral granted to production. However, along with the social environment, natural environment changes, the food of the upstream raw material environment also changing. If only rely on experience to produce, is prone to accidents.

Therefore, in our country to speed up the food industry standard formulation and speed of integration, more important is to speed up the basic research in the food industry. This is the right path.