The Japanese Positive List System for Agricultural Chemical Residues in Foods brought into effect on May 29, 2006. Foods in which any agricultural chemical residues (including pesticides, feed additives, and veterinary drugs) are found in excess of the level determined by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare (Uniform Limit) shall not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, or stored for sale, or sold, provided. And now Japan is the biggest agriculture export destination of China, nearly one third of our agriculture goods were exported to Japan and China is the second biggest agriculture import nation for Japan. As the enforcement of Positive List System and Maximum Residue Limits, many effects will affect to China. Shandong as the biggest agriculture goods export province of China, how to resist the PLS and have a steady improvement, is worthy of consideration. This is the main point of this article.
[Key words] Positive list system, Maximum Residue Limits, Shandong Vegetable, countermeasures