Starting this year, the city will ask "high-risk" food manufacturing companies or organizations to install more surveillance cameras in their key departments, such as those producing or processing meat, infant products, dairy, school canteens and large-scale food delivery services, according to the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration.
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The measure comes after Shanghai Husi Food, owned by the Chinese arm of US food giant OSI Group, was found to have supplied expired meat to fast-food companies in Shanghai and restaurants as far away as Beijing and the provinces of Liaoning, Henan, Sichuan and Shandong.
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"Because there is a gap between the limited number of supervising officers and the mountain of tasks, we are trying to come up with new measures," Gu Zhenhua, deputy director of the administration.
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Since April, the city has helped install video surveillance at four formula producers and at all fast-food companies with a daily delivery capability of 300,000 portions at their warehouses and workshops where feeding, cooking or cleaning is undertaken.
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Other measures include encouraging food companies to set up independent quality control officers to curb malpractice in workshops and building a blacklist to push companies to enhance their management level.
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 Starting this year, the city will ask "high-risk" food manufacturing companies or organizations to install more surveillance cameras in their key departments, such as those producing or processing meat, infant products, dairy, school canteens and large-scale food delivery services, according to the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration.
