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China approves food safety law as supplement to existing statute

In the wake of headline food scandals, China's cabinet on Wednesday approved in principle a draft law on food safety to address the "weak points" in food production, processing, delivery, storage and sales. "Food safety is vital to ... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Thu, Nov 01 2007

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