China will accelerate the pace of setting up national standards for food safety in order to safeguard the public, the Ministry of Health said on August 13.

The standards will be put in place by the end of 2015, said Su Zhi, director of the ministry's Food Safety and Health Supervision Bureau, at a press conference.

According to Su, China will further improve the management mechanism of food safety and establish a normative and transparent working model.

The ministry will publish a report on the standards relating to more than 5,000 kinds of food, as well as revising the regulations on food pollutants and pathogenic bacteria, Su added.