SHANGHAI will launch an “exhaustive food safety management platform” to monitor the operations of food companies and accept public complaints, the city’s food safety watchdog said yesterday.

The food safety information management and service platform will include a dozen existing systems of the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration on license issue, supervision, punishment and inspection, the administration said in a report to local legislators.

The integrated data will be analyzed and shared between city and district-level watchdogs to better ensure the city’s food safety, said Yang Jingsong, director with the administration.