State Food and Drug Administration

China Food and Drug Administration
国家食品药品监督管理总局

Formation	1950 (predecessor organization) 2013 (latest re-organization)
Type	Ministry-level regulatory body
Headquarters	26-Yuan, Xuanwumen Avenue West, Xicheng District, Beijing
Location	Beijing, China
Director	Bi Jingquan
Deputy Directors	Yin Li, Wang Mingzhu, Teng Jiacai, Wu Zhen, Jiao Hong
Discipline Inspection Leader	Li Wusi
Parent organization	State Council of the People's Republic of China
Affiliations	Commission on Food Safety
Website	www.sda.gov.cn

The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) (Chinese: 国家食品药品监督管理总局) was founded on the basis of the former State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). In March 2013, the regulatory body was rebranded and restructured as the China Food and Drug Administration, elevating it to a ministerial-level agency. The headquarters are in Xicheng District, Beijing.

The CFDA replaced a large group of overlapping regulators with an entity similar to the Food and Drug Administration of the United States, streamlining regulation processes for food and drug safety. The China Food and Drug Administration is directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China, which is in charge of comprehensive supervision on the safety management of food, health food and cosmetics and is the competent authority of drug regulation in mainland China.

On July 10, 2007, Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China's State Food And Drug Administration, was executed for taking bribes from various firms in exchange for state licenses related to product safety.

Draft laws, regulations and rules and policy plans on the administration and supervision of food (including food additives and health food, the same below) safety, drugs (including traditional Chinese medicines and ethno-medicines, the same below), medical devices and cosmetics; formulate normative documents, and facilitate the establishment and implementation of the food safety responsibility mechanism, under which food companies shall bear the main responsibility and local people's governments shall take integrated responsibility; establish the direct reporting system for critical food and drug information and supervise its implementation; take measures to reduce risks on regional and systemic food and drug safety;

Formulate the regulations on food administrative licensing and supervise their implementation; establish food safety risk management mechanism, formulate annual plans for nationwide inspection for food safety and programs for major control actions, and organize their implementation; establish the unified food safety information release system and release information on important food safety issues; participate in formulating food safety risk monitoring plans and food safety standards, and undertake food safety risk monitoring thereon;