Public health officials in China announced yesterday their Ministry of Education and State Food and Drug Administration have jointly launched an eight-month campaign to promote food safety in school cafeterias.
This week brought another food safety woe for China when investigations found that some bleaching agents widely used in flour production contained as much as 30 percent pulverized lime.
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The State Food and Drug Administration, China’s food safety watchdog, has ordered a nationwide inspection of all cooking oil as reports released by The China Dailyindicated that almost one-tenth
China will reopen its market to American pork exports, almost a year after banning the products over H1N1 fears, U.S. officials announced Thursday.
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As Chinese businesses try to bolster their food safety image, it seems they can’t catch a break.
Over the past several weeks food regulators have been working to remove
Three Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. executives faced trial this week for selling dairy products tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical used for economic adulteration which can also cause organ failure.
According to Chinese food safety officials, most of the 170 tons of melamine-tainted milk products, which had been repackaged and put back into commerce, have now been removed and destroyed.
Even something as ominous sounding as “The Year of the Tiger” should be celebrated safely.
The year of Geng Yin, the formal name for the Lunar New Year that begins
In the wake of another melamine milk recall and a recent food safety crackdown, China’s state council has set up a high-profile food safety commission to address the nation’
As part of its ongoing effort to find and destroy any melamine-tainted milk remaining on the market, the Chinese government is recalling 170 tons of milk powder laced with the
The People’s Republic of China clearly is not handling the latest melamine-tainted milk problem like it did the last time.
The slow action that marked the last melamine-in-milk scandal
Chinese authorities removed more Melamine-tainted dairy products from the shelves of southern China’s convenience stores on Monday. This action comes more than a year after the first of hundreds