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Chinese Vice-Premier stresses efforts to check food safety

Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang has demanded the comprehensive enforcement of the country's food safety laws, urging checks to be tightened against unsafe food products.

China should enhance efforts to ensure food safety, which is crucial for protecting human lives and improving people's living standards, said Li when addressing a meeting on food safety on Feb 18. [Full story]

 

China vows stricter food safety law enforcement

China has vowed to resolve the country's food safety problems through stricter enforcement of laws and regulations, according to an official statement Xinhua received in June.

The ultimate way to end food safety incidents lies in the laws, said Yuan Shuhong, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, in the statement. [Full story]

 

China to step up food safety supervision in key sectors

The key sectors include diary products, edible oil, meat, health food, food additives, and liquors and wines, according to a statement from the office of the food safety commission under China's cabinet, the State Council. [Full story]

 

China to enhance investigation of food safety incidents

China's health authorities in February vowed to improve their response to food safety incidents.

The ministry would issue a protocol "as early as possible" on how to respond to and investigate food safety incidents, said Vice Health Minister Chen Xiaohong at a national meeting on food safety in Beijing. [Full story]

 

System to assess govt food safety supervision

China vows to strengthen its regulation of food quality to eliminate concerns over food safety and to adopt a system to assess the efficiency of the quality supervision and inspections undertaken by local governments.

At a press conference in Beijing in March, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and the China Association for Quality announced that they consider the adoption of such an assessment system to be their primary task in 2011. [Full story]

 

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