China and Japan are busy negotiating a new draft food safety agreement, which may allow Japanese officials to enter Chinese factories for safety inspections.

In cases where problems with China's exported food to Japan occur, the agreement would allow Japanese government officials to go to the scene to investigate, according to reports from the Japanese media, Sankei Shimbun.

China's top quality watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), confirmed the two sides are in talks about a cooperative agreement on food safety.