China Green Food Development Center

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The China Green Food Development Center (Chinese: 中国绿色食品发展中心; abbreviated CGFDC) is the first agency in the People's Republic of China to oversee organic food standards. The Center was established in November 1992, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, and is headquartered in Beijing.

The CGFDC oversees two Green Food Standards: A (which allows some use synthetic agricultural chemicals) and AA (which is more stringent, allowing less use of such chemicals, and is consequently less popular with agricultural producers). Both standards focus on the end product rather than the process, and do not generally monitor actual use of agricultural chemicals, preferring instead to test the products themselves for chemical residues.[1]

[edit] External links

• China Green Food Development Center official site (Chinese)
• "Pathbreaking Newsletter Promotes Development of Organic Sector in China", by Lila Buckley, February 28, 2006
• "The Movement Toward Organic Herb Cultivation in China", by Subhuti Dharmananda, January 2004
• Description of center
• "China's Organic Revolution", by John Paull, Journal of Organic Systems, 2007

[edit] See also

• Agriculture in China
• Organic certification