BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's procuratorial organs have handled 61,668 public interest litigation cases on food and drugs, and filed 1,083 such cases to courts in a one-year campaign since August 2018, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said at a press conference Thursday.
Among the cases, 8,839 involved food safety supervision around campus, and 1,139 involved false advertising of food and medicines, according to the SPP.
It said procuratorial organs urged market regulation agencies to improve the supervision of online catering, and nearly 60,000 unqualified online restaurants were closed.
The system of public interest litigation by procuratorial organs was established in China in July 2017, said the SPP, adding that procuratorates at all levels handled 204,446 such cases by the end of August.
