e lawmakers pasd new food-safety legislatio to tighten supervision of manufacturers and impo tougher penalties on tho who make bad products as the gover eks to restore publifideer a spate of problems with tainted food. The new laroved by the standing ittee of the National People’s gress after years of drafting and revision, also ts up a system to recall problem products and authorizes the enfort of uniform natioandards for everything from allowable additives to nutritional labeling.
In 2008, six children were killed and nearly 300,000 others were sied after being fed milk powder that had been adulterated with melamine, a toxidustrial chemical. Melamine ination of dairy products was discovered to be widespread. Farmers and traders had added it to raw milk to fool quality tests. How effectively a maintains the safety of its food supply is also increasingly important to ers in other tries as e ingredients end up in foodstuffs sold around the world. Between 2004 and 2007, e food exports climbed about 63%. United Nations public-health experts called for an overhaul of a’s food-safety system, saying that the try’s “disjointed” approad relian a patchwork of various local and national gover ageo police the food supply had tributed to troubles such as the melamine adulteration.
e lawmakers pasd new food-safety legislatio to tighten supervision of manufacturers and impo tougher penalties on tho who make bad products as the gover eks to restore publifideer a spate of problems with tainted food. The new laroved by the standing ittee of the National People’s gress after years of drafting and revision, also ts up a system to recall problem products and authorizes the enfort of uniform natioandards for everything from allowable additives to nutritional labeling.
In 2008, six children were killed and nearly 300,000 others were sied after being fed milk powder that had been adulterated with melamine, a toxidustrial chemical. Melamine ination of dairy products was discovered to be widespread. Farmers and traders had added it to raw milk to fool quality tests. How effectively a maintains the safety of its food supply is also increasingly important to ers in other tries as e ingredients end up in foodstuffs sold around the world. Between 2004 and 2007, e food exports climbed about 63%. United Nations public-health experts called for an overhaul of a’s food-safety system, saying that the try’s “disjointed” approad relian a patchwork of various local and national gover ageo police the food supply had tributed to troubles such as the melamine adulteration.