(BEIJING, December 16) -- Beijing has included the test results of a total of over 70,000 food samples into the data bank of the Olympic food safety monitoring system, according to a Xinhua report.

Since early September, the city's industrial and commercial as well as quality supervision departments have engaged in a four-month campaign to address any problems impeding food safety and quality, focusing on 13 high-risk foods such as vegetables, fruits, meat, rice, cooking oil, soya bean products, aquatic products, dairy products, drinks, infant foods, health foods etc. Until the end of November, 100 percent of the whole-sale farm produce has been put under safety monitoring procedure.

At present, Beijing has set safety standards for 10 categories and 345 varieties of food to be used in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Specific safety measures have been introduced to Olympic food suppliers, sponsors, designated enterprises and logistics centers to impose through monitoring of food production, processing, transportation and distribution.

In a recent survey, the Beijing Consumers' Association found 92.08 percent of responders positive on the safety of food in Beijing's market. During the National Day holidays, the Beijing Municipal Food Safety Office conducted a survey on the pesticide residue of 270 samples representing 29 food categories, and found 99.5 percent of them qualified.