A record number of trade issues were raised at the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on safe food.

Delegates at the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures meeting in November addressed specific trade concerns relating to food safety and animal and plant health.

Countries raised 55 specific

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Singapore is to remove melamine-related measures for the import of milk products from China.

Requirements were established following the 2008 milk incident in China, where the industrial chemical melamine was detected in local infant milk formula products. They will be lifted at the start of November.

More than 290,000 people

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Researchers have looked into the main sources and factors behind Bacillus cereus outbreaks over a 10-year period in China.

Scientists said findings can help guide and allocate public resources to prevent Bacillus cereus foodborne cases.

Data from 2010 to 2020 came from the National Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System.

A total

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Vibrio and Salmonella are the top bacterial pathogens linked to outbreaks in catering facilities, according to a decade of data from incidents in China.

From 2010 to 2020, China’s catering service facilities reported 18,331 outbreaks, which resulted in 206,718 illnesses, 68,561 hospitalizations, and 201 deaths.

There were 5,607 outbreaks in

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As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are

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The United States has said it remains “deeply concerned” with China’s lack of scientific explanation of how two decrees address food safety and public health.

The U.S. repeated its concerns about China’s measures for registering overseas manufacturers of imported food at the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on food

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