China will set up a central food safety commission to help cut down on the country's repeated scandals involving dangerous food products, state media said on Wednesday.
The commission will come under the auspices of the State Council, or Cabinet, and will be set out under a new food safety law to be put to the annual parliamentary session next month, Xinhua news agency said.
Tainted Food Outbreaks Cannot Be Averted Altogether: Safety Experts
Tainted food outbreaks like the deadly melamine discovered in Chinese infant formula will happen again and there is not much that regulators can do about it, safety experts warned on Monday.
Tainted food outbreaks like the deadly melamine discovered in Chinese infant formula will happen again and there is not much that regulators can do about it, safety experts warned on Monday.
China's huge and poorly regulated food industry is regularly hit by scandals involving unsafe foods that harm public health and result in product recalls both at home and abroad.
In one of the biggest, at least six infants died last year and nearly 300,000 were sickened by baby formula tainted by an industrial chemical that had been added to milk supplies to give the appearance of higher protein.
China To Launch Four-Month Food Safety Campaign
China will launch a four-month food safety campaign from Wednesday to prevent the toxic chemical melamine and other harmful substances from ending up on the dinner table, the government said.
China will launch a four-month food safety campaign from Wednesday to prevent the toxic chemical melamine and other harmful substances from ending up on the dinner table, the government said.
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China Needs to Revamp Food Safety After Milk Crisis: UN
China must modernise its food safety system, the United Nations said Wednesday, arguing an outdated and disjointed approach may have worsened a crisis over contaminated milk that killed four babies.
China must modernise its food safety system, the United Nations said Wednesday, arguing an outdated and disjointed approach may have worsened a crisis over contaminated milk that killed four babies.
Food Safety Examples in Popular Cooking Shows Measured in New Study
Some Food Network stars may inadvertently be teaching the wrong lessons during their popular shows, according to a new Texas Tech University study on food safety measures.
Some Food Network stars may inadvertently be teaching the wrong lessons during their popular shows, according to a new Texas Tech University study on food safety measures.
