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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5 Beware of food labels on the trick! To protect the interests of consumers, producers and distribution units to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of our country from January 1, 1988 the formal implementation of the ‘food labeling common standard’ national compulsory standards. This standard is an important basis for the food industry one of the criteria, it relates to packaged food quality, safety, and to ensure the health of millions of people have a significant role. Food labeling is used to clearly tell consumers what to eat, quality, how can safe for consumption, who produced, its contents true and complete, with respect to human Siwei Tian is another important, but the. Therefore, the development of food labeling standards and to the implementation and supervision, has become the international common practice in many countries. Then, purchasers and consumers of food products should pay attention to food labels identify what content? Under the ‘food labeling common standard’ in the provisions, packaging, food labels should follow the principles and requirements, the label should include the food names, list of ingredients, net content and solids weight, factory sites, batch number, production date, shelf-life period or shelf life, edible methodological guidance, quality grade, the product standard code, trademarks, and so on. Bureau of Technical Supervision attaches great importance to ‘common standards for food labeling’ advocacy, implementation and supervision and inspection. From 1990 to 1992 arranged for three consecutive years the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and technical supervision departments, inspection companies and distribution units of packaged food labels. The average passing rate of national unity were: in 1990 43.2% 1991 64.5% 1992 79.2%. From the figures, the passing rate of food labels has increased yearly, but to achieve the desired level of effort to go through a period of time. A m