China's industrial watchdog has revealed that the country's food and drug safety conditions improved significantly in 2015, with the number of illegal cases decreasing every year.

A report published by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said last year more than 350,000 illegal food and drug cases were filed in the country - this is 50,000 lesser compared with that in 2014. Furthermore, the government shut down more than 13,000 unwarranted establishments in 2015.

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The improvements is the result of an initiative to establish cooperation between food and drug watchdogs and other government sectors, according to CFDA.

A recent report by Xinhua said Chinese officials have revealed ways to boost cooperation between administrative and judicial sectors in managing food and drug safety cases. Different sectors including the CFDA, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Supreme People's court and the State Council's executive office of food safety commission have issued a document to the effect.

In the past, the country's efforts to combat food and drug safety crimes had been ill-cordinated as different departments had troubles carrying out their responsibilities because of vague rules on case referrals and unspecific assignments during investigations. The new measures drawn up addressed these problems as well as those involved in conducting shared/joint investigation and transferring cases from administrative bodies to police.

The CFDA report recommended that public security organs, food and safety watchdogs and judicial officials at all levels create a collaboration scheme in cooperating and publishing case information and should conduct regular meetings to tackle cases. Authorities have also suggested an online information platform so cases can be viewed and followed-up via the Internet.

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