Crackdown not enough

There is reason to praise what the public security departments have achieved nationwide in what they call "targeted actions" against the production and sale of unsafe food and agricultural products.

In the past a month and half, more than 36,000 cases have been cracked, and 7,165 unlicensed workshops, plants and markets smashed and more than 17,000 people detained or arrested.

What is particularly noteworthy is the Ministry of Public Security has called what it has achieved so far only preliminary and said that it will not halt its campaign until such unlicensed venues are rooted out.