Wen Jiabao has promised to improve food safety, from AP:
Speaking at a 43-nation Asia-Europe Meeting summit, Wen Jiabao said the milk scandal will spur the introduction of China’s first major food safety law and China’s food exports will meet international standards.
“Food involves a full process from the farmland to the table, it involves many links and many processes,” he said. “In every link and every process we need to put in place effective and powerful regulatory measures.”
In related news, China has had 32,000 tons of milk products burned. Reuters reports:
China has burnt 32,200 tonnes of melamine-tainted dairy products in a bid to put a health scandal in which tens of thousands of infants fell ill stones behind it.
State television showed boxes and packets of milk powder and baby formula being shovelled into giant furnaces in Shijiazhuang in the northern province of Hebei, where the scandal broke in September.
The goods were being burnt in four cement factories and two iron and steel factories.
