Shanghai Ensures the Safety of Edible Meat and Implements Brand Management for 70% of its Meat Products

Brand management is to be conducted for a series of meat distribution enterprises like the “Fuxin Slaughter House” and for such large-sized wholesale markets as the “Agricultural Center Wholesale Market”, “Guotai Wholesale Market” and “Cao’an Wholesale Market”. As is revealed by the Shanghai Municipal Economic Commission, this year, wholesale markets and slaughter houses that constitute over 70 percent of the city’s distribution of meat products will be the major ones for the implementation of the “Brand Project” in an effort to ensure the safety of edible meat for the citizens.

Utilizing modern information technology, Shanghai also strengthens the management of information flow. The IC card is introduced in the management of live pigs and meat products entering Shanghai at the entrances to the city, in the pig slaughter houses, and on the wholesale markets of meat and meat products. Information about the place of origin of the live pigs or meat products, their species, quantity, quarantine, examination, dealers of live pig wholesale and the wholesaler is input into the IC card so that the distribution chain is effectively monitored and traceable
Source: en.shac.gov.cn