Product tracking system 'necessary'

A new product identification and tracking system - in the spotlight recently because it could raise production costs - is a vital step in ensuring product quality, a senior quality control official said yesterday.

"By tracking the unique code on each product, we can trace the whole production and distribution process," Song Mingchang, member of the Party committee of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), said while demonstrating the system to the media.

There has been some resistance to the system, because companies are unfamiliar with it, he said.