A few days before authorities in Shanghai announced they had shut down a dairy and arrested local businessmen for adulterating milk products with melamine, a toxic industrial chemical, official Chinese
On December 31, 2009, the Chinese government-run Xinhua news agency announced that melamine was found in milk produced by the Shanghai Panda company. Initial reports indicated that the Shanghai Panda
Chinese authorities closed a dairy in Shanghai and arrested three of the company’s executives after melamine was discovered in its dairy products, according to a Shanghai newspaper.
According to
Senior Chinese food safety officials completed a two-week food safety study exchange program in New Zealand yesterday–the latest example of an increased effort within the international community to improve
Three men who worked at Jinqiao Dairy Company in Northern China’s Shaanxi Province were arrested Tuesday for selling more than five tons of melamine-contaminated milk powder in September, according
Official Chinese media reported yesterday that a panel of 42 experts in the field of hygiene, agriculture, food, and nutrition was created by the government to assess current food safety
Chinese officials announced that two milk producers were executed yesterday for their role in last year’s nationwide melamine milk contamination scandal, which killed six infants and sickened over 300,
Twenty-two senior Chinese food safety delegates from industry, government and academia met in Minnesota last week as part of the Global Initiative for Food Systems Leadership’s (GIFSL’s) two-week
November 4 and 5, the Chinese General Administration for Quality Supervision Inspection & Quarantine (AQSIQ) will host the 3rd annual China International Food Safety & Quality Conference and Expo in
* China is selling three times as much food in the United States now than it did at the start of this decade.
* The import value of the food China sells
China rejected the importation of 37.8 tons of frozen orange juice concentrate from PepsiCo Inc. after the product failed quality inspections for containing high levels of yeast.
According to
Cheuk Wing-hing, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene for Hong Kong, recently commended the food business for adopting the government’s Five Keys to Food Safety program, which has been