Before the trial of two of its Shanghai facilities and 10 employees, officials with OSI Group expressed “confidence in China’s legal system,” and said they believed the local court would “come to a fair and
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U.S., China FDA Officials to Speak at Shanghai Food Safety Conference
Xu Jinghe, director of legal affairs for the China Food and Drug Administration, holds a position pretty much equivalent to Michael R. Taylor, the deputy commissioner for foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Chinese Cities Tighten Food Safety Laws
At the close of 2012, the city of Bejing passed a new law that will ban vendors who produce or sell unsafe food from the municipality. The regulation was passed December 26 by the Standing
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Shanghai Considers Food Safety Blacklist
Shanghai is considering a new regulation that would blacklist and harshly punish businesses involved in illegal food safety conduct, according to Chinese media Xinhua.
The crackdown, which comes amidst a slew of food safety
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NSF Opens Shanghai Food Safety Testing Lab
NSF International, a global not-for-profit public health and product safety organization, opened a lab in Shanghai this week to expand testing and certification services to China–and they could use the help.
The news of the
Shanghai Increases Food Safety Efforts
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 media were touting the
Melamine in Chinese Powdered Milk…Again
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 plant was shut down, three