GOINGS-ON | Shanghai adopts new rules to ensure campus food safety

ollecting food information will be regulated from October 1 this year, aiming to protect Shanghai students from food safety problems.

According to the new regulation, school canteens, chain supermarkets, standardized markets and other catering companies must upload information of their products, including name, the number of raw materials they bought and the purchasing date, to the information collection platform (www.shfda.org) in 24 hours.

On the platform, consumers can get the information of products they bought and lodge a complaint on sellers.

“Our students can be at ease when eating in the school canteens which may be forced to make improvement by the regulation,” Huang Ziyang, a student studying at the School of Japanese Studies, said.

The idea of setting up this platform first appeared in 2010 when food safety only focused on food stores and supermarkets.