CHINA mulls law to ensure food safety - (Xinhua News Agency)
December 26, 2007 – 6:11 pmChinese lawmakers are, according to this story, considering a law to ensure food safety amid increasing incidence of food scandals.
The story says that the draft law on food safety was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), or China’s top legislature, for the first reading on Wednesday.
Cao Kangtai, Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council director, was cited as telling the legislative session that food safety incidents occurred from time to time and that unsafe factors existed in many kinds of food, which caused the public to lose confidence in domestic food and damaged the reputation of China-made food around the world, adding, “A lack of systematic food safety standards and supervision network are to blame.”
In his report on supervision of food and drug safety, delivered to the legislative session, Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu said pollution in food-producing areas, pesticide residue, food packaging made of […]
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