Food companies lack confidence in their own products

SHANGHAI - Most of the companies in the city's food industry are not confident when evaluating their own quality standards, a survey shows.

The survey, conducted by the Shanghai Association for Quality, polled more than 800 companies, including food-processing, food-producing and drink-producing companies, accounting for about 22 percent of the city's 3,794 companies that have received food-production licenses.

The companies rated themselves according to the credit evaluation norms for food industry enterprises issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2010.