Founded in 1950, the National Institutes for food and drug Control (NIFDC) is a subordinate agency of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and there are more than 50 departments and divisions within NIFDC. Gate of NIFDC       The main professional areas of NIFDC cover pharmaceutical products, biological products, medical devices, food, healthy food�� Cosmetic, reference standards, laboratory animals, and drug safety evaluation etc. More than 800 different testing items could be performed in NIFDC. Each year, more than 13,000 batches of drugs are tested in NIFDC and more than 2,900 reference standards are distributed by NIFDC. Currently, there are more than 789 employees including 696 technical staffs (accounts for 88% of total employees), two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 269 senior technical staffs (accounts for 34% of total employees), 321 employees with higher education background of Master or PhD degree (accounts for 41% of total employees), 70 experts entitled to take the Government Special Allowance, 13 experts entitled to the national honor of Expert with Outstanding Contribution. Currently, there are more than 9800 modern testing instruments and equipment in NIFDC, with the total asset value of more than 400 million RMB. In september, 2010, relocation project of NIDFC,was approved by National Development and Reform Commission. The new campus of NIFDC will be completed in 2014 with the area  of 100,383 square metre and total cost is 1090 million RMB.