CHINA moves to improve quality of its seafood - (The New York Times)
December 28, 2007 – 6:56 pmSHANGHAI–Responding to growing global concerns about the quality and safety of its seafood, China was cited as saying this week that it would introduce an array of production standards to improve safety and guard against the use of illegal veterinary drugs.
An official of the Ministry of Agriculture said in a speech Thursday that the new standards would cover 100 categories, everything from breeding fish and seafood products to disease prevention and drug controls.
The government also said it would work to produce a more environmentally friendly mode of production, one of the biggest challenges facing Chinas seafood industry.
The move, which was first announced at a seafood conference in the capital on Monday, is the latest food safety initiative to come out of Beijing, which is pushing aggressively to ensure Chinese consumers and importers of Chinese food that the countrys products are safe and healthy.
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