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4-month safety effort targets food additives

CHINA is launching a four-month safety campaign designed to stop food companies from adding illegal or excessive chemicals to their products - the country's latest move to restore consumer trust lost in the tainted-milk... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Dec 09 2008

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09 Dec 08		4-month campaign to ensure food safety launched » People's Daily A four-month nationwide campaign will begin tomorrow to ensure all food products are free of non-edible substances and excessive levels of additives, the government said yesterday. The move comes after melamine-contaminated baby milk food caused the...
15 Dec 08		China steps up efforts to rid food of illegal additives » Shanghai Daily CHINA has warned its food producers to rid their products of illegal additives in a latest move to restore trust hurt by the recent tainted milk scandal. The notice, published today by a joint investigation led...
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16 Dec 08		Xinjiang cracking down on illegal food additives » People's Daily Authorities in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are examining illegal additives in grain and cooking oil to improve food safety in the wake of the milk scandal. The campaign, launched Monday across the landlocked region in the country's...
14 Jan 08		China Claims Big Progress in Food Safety » China Confidential China has declared its campaign to improve food safety a success. The effort to better supervise food manufacturers followed a series of scandals over tainted products sold at home and overseas. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing.China's product quality...

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