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China's Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) will tighten regulation and revise standards on an extensive range of food and drugs. A national plan from 2016-2020 requires whole-process control and whole chain regulation on food and drugs, especially on source control and risk prevention. A total of 1.1 million cases concerning food safety have been handled nationwide from 2013 to 2015. Those companies and individuals violating regulations will receive severe punishment in the future, such as criminal liability for the adulteration of food. The plan also intends to revise at least 300 food safety standards during the five year period.

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Major European brands such as Nestle and Knorr, and Chinese brands such as Lee Kum Kee and Wang Shu Li, which market soya sauce and spice mixes are being counterfeited on a large scale in China by small scale factories. China's Food and Drug Administration have started an investigation. In December 2016, the Chinese Food and Drug Administration said it had conducted 15 million inspections in the first three quarters of 2016, during which more than 500,000 incidents of illegal behaviour were found.

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