China plays down extent of food safety troubles
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China played down the country's food-safety problems on Tuesday but at the same time showed off room after room of confiscated fakes, indicating the extent of the challenge it faces to clean up the industry.
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China released figures suggesting the economy is not decelerating as much as feared, easing concerns the government might have stepped too hard on the brakes.
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With a famine less than 50 years in its past, China remains sensitive about using food for fuel.
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China sets out its strategy for tackling climate change, but stresses it will not sacrifice economic growth.
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China sought to assure its trade partners on Thursday that its food products were safe, after the United States called Chinese food exports a "top concern" and pressed Chinese officials to strengthen oversight.
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China risks damaging its credibility if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official newspaper said on Monday amid a series of health scares over toxic drugs, foods, toys and other products.
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China's quarantine bureau has suspended imports of frozen chicken and pork parts from top U.S. meat and poultry processors, even as international scrutiny of Chinese food and drug safety grows.
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China has sent a notice to the World Health Organisation defending its food safety standards and sentenced another food and drug watchdog official for bribery, its latest moves to assure the world its exports are up to par.
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Even as it cracks down on product safety and substandard goods, China lashes out at critics of its exports.
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China, reeling from a series of health scandals, on Friday told food and drug companies to put safety first and urged the media to paint a rosier picture as the government scrambled to quell public alarm.
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A top health official called for more integration within China's fractured food regulatory system Friday to boost its troubled safety record, while the military warned that unsafe food could undermine its combat readiness.
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Domestic consumers, not foreign press, led to China's new food-safety strategy.
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China said it would shut small or unregulated food processors, reducing the number of firms by half, but defended the quality of its exports on Wednesday amid a spate of health scares over Chinese-made food and drugs.
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Chinaâs Ministry of Agriculture said a recent nationwide crackdown on the use of illegal veterinary drugs improved the quality and safety of seafood production.
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Hyping China's food and product safety problem is a sickness in itself, the country's new health minister said on Wednesday, a day after Mattel announced a third global recall of Chinese-made toys.
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BEIJING, May 31 -- China on Thursday strongly contested complaints it is exporting tainted food and other products to the United States, saying controls here are improving and U.S. inspectors have approved 99 percent of its shipments over the past three years.
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Recall systems for unsafe food products and toys went into effect Friday in China as part of a bid to improve product safety, state media said.