Beijing ? China’s dairy industry — at the center of the country’s latest food safety scandal — will be overhauled to improve every step from cow breeding to milk sales, the government said.

The major shake-up will cover all aspects of the dairy supply chain, including production, purchase, processing and sales within the next year, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.

“The crisis has put China’s dairy industry in peril and exposed major problems existing in the quality control and supervision of the industry,” an official with the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning body, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

Details posted on the Web site of the State Council, China’s Cabinet, said the Health Ministry would revise the quality and safety standards of dairy products, while the Agriculture Ministry would draft examination standards to check for melamine and other toxins in animal feed. A tracking system would also be established to record the flow and delivery of dairy products.