State Administration of Work Safety recently issued the Interim Provisions on the Supervision and Administration of Safe Production of Food Production Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions").  

According to the Provisions, a food producer with over 300 employees should establish a safe production management organization, which shall consist of at least three full-time management personnel on safe production, and one certified safety engineer.  The Provisions provide the legal liabilities related with the violation of the Provisions.  Those that violate the relevant provisions should be subject to administrative penalties.  

A food producer could be penalized with a fine of up to RMB 20,000 under the following circumstances:

- No report is made to the concerned governmental authorities on work safety within five working days after a construction project is put into use.

- No report is made to the concerned governmental authorities about the laying-off of the concerned managerial staff in food safety.

- No recording of the examination over accidents and malfunction and there is no disclosure of such an examination to the concerned workers of the food producer.

The Provisions will come into force on March 1, 2014.

You may find the full text of the law in Chinese by following the link.