The launching ceremony of "Food Safety Week" was held by Changsha Mawangdui Agriculture Products Co. Ltd., with a theme of "Practice on Green Trading, Resistance on Agriculture Products with Pesticide Residues and Veterinary Drug Residues entering market."

The company said that this year, apart from continually strengthen testing on vegetable, they will introduce a third-party detection institution for food quality testing, and invest about 20 million yuan in building a testing lab at the new Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market.

As for now, the average daily volume of trading in Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market reached about five to six million. "Introducing a third-party detection institution can ensure us a sense of safety on agriculture products," said Yang Peng, the chief executive of Mawangdui Agriculture Products Co. Ltd.

It is learnt that Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market opened in May, 1991. Now, with a covering area of about 300 mu, it has a jurisdiction over Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market, Mawangdui Seafood Wholesale Market, and more than 3000 merchants. More than 85 percent of vegetable and 90 percent of seafood in Changsha come from here, and these products also find a good sale in other regions throughout Hunan province, Hubei province and Jiangxi province.

"It is not a easy thing to make a testing on such a large trading volume, which therefore needs us to introduce a third-party institution for agriculture products detection," said Yang Peng.

It is reported that the safety detection on products from Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market is under the charge of Changsha Mawangdui Agriculture Products Co. Ltd. Professional quality inspectors will sample each kind of agriculture product to lab everyday, and make a detection with professional equipment. Once the product has been tested pesticide residues that is out of limits, it will be forced to be out of market. This time, the detection institution Shenzhen Haijixing Science and Technology Center of Food Quality Testing Co. Ltd is a public service platform aiming at combining circulation service, food supply with safety detection.

Li Jun, general manager of the company, said: "our company introduced the most advanced testing equipment in China, which even enable us to provide the data of agriculture products with pesticide residues. We devote ourselves to forge Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market the most advanced vegetable market in food safety control in China."