Finally, China acknowledges that its food items contained toxic substances, as country’s nationwide survey discloses.
Government led survey conveys that nearly one in five of the food and consumer products were found to be substandard or tainted, which now could have more pressure from overseas.
China is under scrutiny for its tainted food and drug items. U.S. and other nations have imposed ban on Chinese food and toothpaste. Now, china’s seafood is placed under the regulations of ‘Food and Drug Administration’. China initially ruled out the allegations, but now it seems that government has weighed the problem and seems to co-ordinate with the affected nations.
Chinese regulators asserts that authority unleashes the conclusion after studying country’s foods, agricultural tools, clothing, women and children’s products, thoroughly and find that sizable quantity of substance failed in the safety standard.
Survey shows that canned and preserved fruit and dried fish contained excessive bacteria; that 20 percent of the fruit and vegetable juice surveyed was deemed substandard, and that some children’s products were defective or laced with harmful chemicals.
The announcement came in the midst of a growing scandal over the quality and safety of Chinese-made exports and follows a series of international recalls.
Chinese products were known for its economical rates, but American apprehension over quality and safety failures has put country’s export on limbo.
To combat with the problem effectively, Chinese authority had carried a nationwide survey and also shut about 180 food factories nationwide, which failed to clear country’s food safety standard.
Via: NYTimes
