In order to enhance the administration on food additive production, distribution, and use, recently, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and Information, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and the State Food and Drug Administration jointly issued the notice on food additive，and required effectively strengthening the administration in production, distribution, and use, strictly examining the safety of new products, improving the standards, dealing with the criminal actions of using inedible substance or abusing food additives, improving the supervision rules and regulations, and strengthening the food safety monitoring.

The notice also required that each region or department should definite their own responsibilities, and effectively protect the order in production and business of foods and food additives.