Jiang Deming,an agronomist engaged in extending farming technology in Sheyang County,in east China’s Zhejiang Province, did not realize how poisonous the vegetables and grains in people’s kitchens could be until his wife was sickened after eating a cucumber one day 13 years ago. The incident prompted Jiang, then a national lawmaker, to initiate a motion on legislation related to the safety of farm produce. One summer afternoon in 1998, Jiang Deming, an agronomist engaged in extending farming technology in Sheyang County, in east China’s Zhejiang Province, did not realize how poison and the grains in people’s kitchens could be until his wife was sickened after eating a cucumber one day 13 years ago. The incident prompted Jiang, then a national lawmaker, to aa a motion on legislation related to the safety of farm produce. One summer afternoon in 1998,