Food safety an Olympic challenge for Beijing Games
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Pampered pigs or processed pork? Farm-fresh or greenhouse grown? With China's food supplies under scrutiny following a series of health and safety scares, Chinese officials are taking no chances for the Olympic Games this August.
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China, reeling from a series of health scandals, told food and drug companies on Friday to put safety first and warned the growing problem could threaten social stability in the world's most populous nation.
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BEIJING, Dec. 12 -- Chinese officials on Tuesday agreed to implement a detailed experimental tracking and data-sharing program for a limited number of foods, drugs, and medical devices bound for the United States. U.S. officials hailed the agreement as a breakthrough, but independent food safety...
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HELSINKI, Jun 20 (IPS) - With barely a year to go before the Beijing  Olympics, a long shadow of labour and human rights violations in  the production of games merchandise has been cast over the global  sporting event.
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DALIAN, China  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday his country took food safety "very seriously", echoing comments by President Hu Jintao in Sydney.
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BEIJING -- China's regulatory standards chief pledged yester day to update and boost enforcement of food safety rules as the country faces intense international pressure for exporting unsafe products, from toothpaste to pet food ingredients.
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It's bound to go down the wrong way in Beijing: A U.S. health food company will label its products "China-Free" to ease concerns about contamination.
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China risks damaging its global credibility if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official newspaper said on Monday in a rare admission amid a series of health scares over tainted products.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Choking pollution and sapping heat will be the major concerns for the world's elite marathon runners at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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Dumpling delicacies stuffed with cardboard shreds and bogus rabies vaccines are the focus of the latest health scares in China, where an industrial solvent used in toothpaste was banned after a spate of global recalls.
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VANCOUVER -- Rob Skish is looking forward to the 2010 Winter Olympics. A "binner" who plumbs garbage containers to fill his shopping cart with food for his stomach and cans for the recycler, Skish figures that when the Olympic crowds come to town, the pickings in the bins will be good.
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China is preparing to put in place its first recall system targeting unsafe food products amid growing international alarm over the quality of the country's exports, state media reported Tuesday.
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A system to monitor food safety will go into effect during test events for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month, a government watchdog announced Thursday, even as a TV station aired an undercover investigation showing how shredded cardboard was used as a filling in steamed buns.
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Fish could give you cancer, snails meningitis and baby milk may kill your children -- barely a day goes by without some new food horror story in China.
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China is struggling to meet food safety demands from trading partners as it slowly modernizes a food production system still rooted in small-scale family farms, U.S. and Chinese officials said on Tuesday.
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China's military increases food safety supervision due to fears that poor products could harm combat capacity.
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Turning the tables on the United States amid growing worries over dangerous Chinese products, Beijing said Friday some health supplements and raisins imported from the U.S. failed to meet China's safety standards and have been returned or destroyed.