Nearly 100 people have been arrested in China for allegedly producing and selling illegal melamine-tainted dairy products, according to official Chinese media.
Of the 96 people detained in connection with
Almost 70 percent of the Chinese public are not confident about the safety of the country’s food supply, a recent national survey found.
Insight China and Tsinghua Media Survey
A leading United Nations human rights official expressed concern Thursday over China’s treatment of food safety activists.
Olivier De Schuttter, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s independent expert
A botulism warning for corn from the People’s Republic of China has been out since last Friday (Dec. 17) in Canada, and has now been expanded to include all
In the wake of several high-profile food safety scandals, China’s top legislature is considering amending its criminal code to stiffen the penalties for food safety crimes.
The amendment would
Chinese media let another food scandal out of the bag last week. This time the health culprit is popular hotpot dishes that are often tainted with harmful chemical additives, according
I am finally sitting on a plane (an hour and a half late) heading home to Seattle from Atlanta nearly two weeks after leaving Seattle for Los Angeles and from
More than two years after China was bungling its way through the melamine-contaminated milk scandal, the father of one of the victims is being sent to prison for organizing other
China rejected a shipment of U.S. corn late last week after officials learned that it contained an unsanctioned strain of the genetically modified commodity. The action, which would be
with U.S. officials did not appeal the World Trade Orgnization’s ruling against U.S. restrictions on the import of Chinese chicken.
Existing appropriations restrictions limited the U.S.
Chinese officials began a concerted nationwide campaign Tuesday to evaluate the country’s beleaguered food safety system, which has recently weathered a series of high-profile scandals, including melamine-tainted dairy and
The Chinese government is launching a nationwide registry aimed at keeping melamine out of the food supply and in the industrial sector, where the chemical is typically used for making