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On the Washington Post’s PostGlobal site, Chinese journalist Wang Feng writes in support of international pressure as a means to help China clean up its act in food production: The toothpaste saga is a textbook case of a public health and food safety crisis that wouldn’t have even raised eyebrows inside China, much less been […]
Read MoreThe International Herald Tribune looks at the career of Zheng Xiaoyu, the State Food and Drug administrator who was recently executed for corruption: The rise and fall of Zheng offers a rare glimpse inside China’s flawed regulatory system. He started out as an idealistic reformer. Concerned about China’s unsafe drug supply, he lobbied for the […]
Read MoreSigns line a street in Hong Kong, by earth2marsh
Read MoreNewsweek is the latest to look into the recent food scares originating in China: It may seem hard to remember now, but just a few years ago, pundits and the global press were marveling at how quickly China had come on as a major manufacturing export power able, or so the thinking went, to build […]
Read MoreAnother entry to the list of questionable food products in China: cardboard-filled steamed buns. A Beijing TV undercover crew filmed a baozi factory that was making pork dumplings using cardboard filler: The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground. “What’s in the recipe?” the reporter asks. […]
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