Canada has been instrumental to China’s advances in food safety, but some experts question whether China can ever regulate all of the small-scale food producers. From the National Post:
As the world frets about risky dog food, dumplings and other consumables from China, the Canadian government has been helping the Chinese try to better regulate their vast and troubled food industry, a federal official confirmed yesterday.
Canadian experts have helped draft new food-safety laws touted recently by China, tutored scores of Chinese food-safety authorities and even developed the first training manual for meat inspectors in a country whose livestock output dwarfs that of Canada.
The contract for the latest project, another round of risk-management training at a University of Ottawa institute, was tentatively issued this month. It is all part of a little-known, $20-million aid program run by Agriculture Canada.
With one tainted-food crisis after another hitting China lately, the project launched in 2003 suddenly became an urgent priority for the Asian giant during recent months.
