FDA to check safety of imported Chinese seafood
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The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it will detain imports of Chinese farm-raised catfish, shrimp and other seafood to make sure the shipments are free from harmful residues.
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China is to put in place a system allowing the recall of unsafe or unapproved food products following a series of health scares that have led to illnesses and deaths, state media reported on Tuesday.
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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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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already on the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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The U.S Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it will not allow imports of Chinese farm-raised catfish, shrimp and other seafood until suppliers can prove the shipments are free from harmful residues.
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China's growing list of food safety scandals has now prompted its army to step up checks on where its rations come from, a state newspaper said on Friday.
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The same industrial chemical that led to a massive pet food recall was used by a U.S. manufacturer of ingredients for feeding livestock, fish and shrimp, health officials said Wednesday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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Certain health supplements and raisins imported from the United States failed to meet Chinese safety standards and have been returned or destroyed, the country's food safety agency said Friday, turning the tables on the U.S. amid growing worries over dangerous Chinese products.
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China reacts angrily to a US ban on seafood products, after American authorities say they include banned antibiotics.
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U.S. authorities have added Chinese toothpaste to their list of imports from that country to undergo tests for chemical contamination.
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The Food Standards Agency says it is probing whether bird flu-infected meat could have got into the food chain.
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China's food safety monitor promised Tuesday to investigate a report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing use counterfeit branded water.
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US health officials are checking shipments of toothpaste from China for a potentially lethal chemical.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission is expanding inspections of imports after the recalls of toys, toothpaste and pet-food ingredients from China.
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The Bush administration proposed new steps on Thursday it says China must take to ensure the safety of food and other exports, but it remained unclear if the measures would be embraced by Beijing.
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The European Union has no plans to ban  imports of Chinese seafood despite a U.S. ban on shipments of  farm-raised catfish, shrimp and other seafood from the Asian  country, a spokesman for the EU&#39;s health chief said.