Legal basis: Article 6 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law states that local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for food safety supervision and management in their respective administrative areas, uniformly lead, organize and coordinate food safety supervision and management and food safety emergency response in their respective administrative areas, and establish and improve the whole process food safety supervision and management mechanism and information sharing mechanism.
The local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with this Law and the provisions of the State Council, determine the responsibilities of the food safety supervision and management, health administrative departments and other relevant departments at the corresponding level. The relevant departments shall be responsible for the supervision and management of food safety within the scope of their respective duties.
The food safety supervision and administration department of the people's government at the county level may set up agencies in towns or specific areas.