Food safety an Olympic challenge for Beijing Games
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Pampered pigs or processed pork? Farm-fresh or greenhouse grown?
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15/10/2004 - UK food watchdog warns this week it will bump up prevention actions for food pathogens as salmonella cases are on the rise, but contamination focus on Spanish eggs seems likely.
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BEIJING -- Heightened anger and fear over the safety of food ingredients, medicine, and other consumer products was vividly on display here Tuesday following the execution of the former head of China's food and drug safety agency.
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China promised to cooperate in tackling its food safety problems but urged a quick resolution.
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China's regulatory standards chief pledged Wednesday 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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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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Chinese food safety officials are calling for more stringent inspections and testing of exports, saying international alarm over the quality of its products is threatening China's image and relations with other countries.
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The United States Olympic Committee has made arrangements to have 25,000 pounds of lean protein shipped to China to feed its athletes.
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The International Olympic Committee  (IOC) has urged Beijing to ensure the city is ready to host the  2008 Games well in advance, an official said on Wednesday.
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China is the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, but contaminated water has created serious food safety and environmental problems.
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Nearly 100 children were treated in hospital in southwestern China in the latest of a spate of food poisoning outbreaks that have raised concerns about hygiene standards, state press have said.
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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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New computer-based tools are helping track outbreaks of food contamination in the United States faster, food safety officials say, but they need more funds to meet a growing public demand for a safe food supply.
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The U.S. Congress will act soon to  address the issue of Chinese food and product safety, something  Beijing should not take as a trumped-up political act, two U.S.  lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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China's customs authorities have begun checking food exports, like some proteins and glycerine which is used in toothpaste, after a series of health scares abroad involving tainted Chinese-made products.
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Rising trend of early human death cases in recent years in China have sounded alert on how to find effective ways to prevent the widespread sub health problems, which has so
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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.