In accordance with the Food Safety Law and its implementing regulations and the State Council's Decision on Strengthening Food Safety Work, in order to implement the tasks of cleaning up and integrating food standards in the 12th Five-Year Plan for the National Food Safety Supervision System and the 12th Five-Year Plan for National Food Safety Standards, in May 2014, the National Health and Family Planning Commission issued the National Food Safety Standard Integration Work Plan (2014-2015), launching the task of cleaning up and integrating food standards, which also includes the integration of standards for food-related products.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission took the lead in integrating the current food containers, packaging materials and other food-related product standards according to the classification of food-related products and the catalog of food-related product safety standards, and formed the basic standards and product standards for food-related products. By the end of 2015, the cleaning up and integration tasks of food-related product safety standards were successfully completed, and the new standard framework was gradually formed and improved. The revised food contact material safety standards were also released in 2015 and 2016.