On September 2, 2022, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress officially promulgated the new version of the Quality and Safety Law of Agricultural Products, which will come into effect on January 1, 2023.
As the cardinal law of agricultural products in China, the Quality and Safety Law of Agricultural Products was developed to regulate the risk management and standard development of the quality and safety of agricultural products, the place of origin, production and sale of agricultural products, as well as stakeholder's legal responsibilities. The current version was released in 2006 and first amended in 2018. Since June of 2019, three times of comments solicitations have been carried out for the revision of this law. The latest revision will further enhance the supervision on the whole process of agricultural products from the farmland to the dining table. The following is the major revisions: