Objective To analyze the feedback from National Food Safety Standard follow-up evaluation in 2017; to figure out the valuable suggestions regarding the standards with high concern. To provide advice to improve the mechanism of National Food Safety Standard follow-up evaluation. Methods According to the suggestions collected from January to December in 2017, through national food safety standard follow-up evaluation and feedback platform, descriptive analysis was conducted and the high frequency words were selected from the suggestions. The suggestions regarding the top 10 key standards were classified into valuable or non-valuable group and the rates of valuable suggestions were calculated. Results In 2017, totally 5 057 suggestions covering 298 standards were collected. The suggestions reflected that the food classification,detection method, items and limit levels, food label, scope and definition were highly concerned. Among the suggestions regarding the top 10 key standards, 43.5%(1 279/2 937) of the suggestions were valuable. Conclusion Some suggestions collected through the platform were valuable and worthy to be taken into consideration during the revision of the standards. In order to improve the efficiency of the standard follow-up evaluation and ensure the quality of National Food Safety Standards, it is necessary to expand the concept of ‘national food safety standard follow-up evaluation’, and establish related expert group.