In the first quarter of this year, the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision organized a special supervision and random inspection of chemical fertilizer product quality across the province. The sampling qualification rate was 74%, of which 15 batches of chemical fertilizer products were suspected of counterfeiting.

The sampling process of the spot inspection shall adopt the combination of sampling from the market and sampling from production companies, highlighting spot checks in industrial clusters. Random inspections involved 194 batches of 156 enterprises in Shanxi Province (including 48 manufacturing enterprises and 108 distribution companies). A total of 65 batches of chemical fertilizer products were found to be unqualified, and the sampling qualification rate of fertilizer products was 74%. Among them, a total of 11 batches (2 batches suspected of counterfeiting) produced by enterprises in the province and 54 batches produced by enterprises outside the province (13 batches suspected of counterfeiting). The main reasons for unqualified products are: First, nutrient content, trace element content and amino acid content in fertilizers are insufficient; second, limit indicators such as heavy metals are exceeded.

In comparison, the pass rate of chemical fertilizers in Shanxi Province in 2015, 2016 and 2017 was over 90%. According to the person in charge of the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision, the reason for the low pass rate of spot checks is that sample collection covers as much as possible new types of small-scale production and distribution companies such as fertilizers, and additional batches of spot checks have been added to fertilizer distribution companies in circulation. Increased inspections of the quality of products imported into Shanxi’s foreign companies. For the results of spot checks, the Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision requested the relevant city bureaus to increase the investigation and punishment in accordance with laws and regulations, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of farmers, and crack down on counterfeiting and counterfeiting.
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