China starts to take action, punitive and preventive, in response to the recent string of food safety scandals. From AP, via the Houston Chronicle:
China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe food products.
The developments are among the most dramatic steps Beijing has publicly taken to address domestic and international alarm over shoddy and unsafe Chinese goods ” from pet food ingredients and toothpaste mixed with industrial chemicals to tainted antibiotics. [Full Text]
See also China calls for food tracing system to boost safety by Niu Shuping.
