Some supplementary rules were given lately on the Plastic Ban that forbids free delivery of plastic shopping bags from retailers. The latest rules say the tear-off plastic bags that supermarkets provide in shops to contain food such as veges, beef, fruit and cooked food have to be marked with special signs of "QS" and "For Food" showing the bag is safe enough to contain food. The tear-off bags without proper signs won't be allowed in retailing shops after 30 September. About this, supermarket insiders think it's a bit unreasonable to abandon all the old tear-off bags before the deadline since the national standard of new bags hasn't been given yet such as what the signs look like and where they should be positioned in a bag.

     Management on food packaging
     A set of rules that regulates the marks on food packages is to be issued today on 1 September. The new regulation prohibits product descriptions of seven categories appearing on the packages of food, which includes any description that indicates or implies prevention or cure effect of diseases, promises proving people's health, exaggerates, misleads or cheats on effects of food, and hides the fact of using the transgenic material, etc. Morever, the production description on the food package should make it undoubtfully clear in Chinese if the food has undergone ionizing radiation or ionizing energy procession, or is possibly to cause health damage to the