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Dental Health Protection Team Closed Down – Gu Jia

From Shanghai Daily: CHINA’S Ministry of Health has closed a national dental disease protection and treatment guidance team, a facility that has aroused many disputes mainly over its right to give endorsements to dental care products. The dental expert team, which was reported to have only two employees in its Beijing headquarters, has endorsed products […]

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Poisonous Beef Kills One, Sickens 55 in S. China – Xinhua

From China Daily: KUNMING — A seven-year-old boy died and 55 others fell violently ill after eating poisonous beef in south China’s Yunnan province, local government sources said Saturday. The incident happened around 5:00 pm Thursday in Zhadian Township, Gejiu City of Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, an area mainly populated by people from the Hani and […]

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China Admits Tainted Food Link – Calum MacLeod

From USA Today: Chinese authorities acknowledged for the first time that ingredients exported to make pet food contained a prohibited chemical, stepping up their probe of two Chinese companies’ roles in one of the USA’s largest animal-food recalls. While pledging cooperation with U.S. authorities investigating the recall, the Chinese government in a statement Thursday also […]

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Over 50 Kids Suffer Food Poisoning – Xinhua

From Shanghai Daily: MORE than 50 children were poisoned by a kindergarten breakfast in central China, state media said today, in the latest case highlighting problems in the country’s food supply chain. The children were hospitalized after eating breakfast yesterday at a private kindergarten in Zhengzhou city in Henan province, Xinhua news agency said. Thirty […]

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China Boom “Threatens Minorities” – Jill McGivering

From BBC News: Some of China’s biggest minority groups are failing to benefit from China’s rapid economic development, a new report has found. The report also said greater contact with the rest of China is threatening indigenous cultures and languages. The findings have been published by the Minority Rights Group International and Human Rights in […]

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