At the Council on Foreign Relations, Yanzhong Huang challenges official claims that China’s food safety problems are overblown, and prescribes a more extensive, stringent and streamlined regime of food inspections. Is...
In a country plagued by food safety scandals, mitigating risk while shopping for groceries is no easy task. While it has been noted that those with a cache of power sometimes enjoy greater access to safe food, for everyone else...
As part of the Aspen Institute/Asia Society sponsored US-China Forum on the Arts and Culture, some of the leading American organic advocates were in China last week. Chez Pannise founder and “California cuisine”...
With food safety scandals often in the news, Chinese officials are not eager for the public to know the lengths they go to to ensure the safety of what they eat. This spring, a Chinese journalist investigated the private farms...
The following article was published by Southern Weekend on May 5, and details special organic food supplies that are available for government officials only. With food safety issues a major concern that Chinese citizens contend...
From the New York Times: The federal certification, the backbone of the organics industry, is aimed at assuring consumers that farmers and food manufacturers have passed tough, independent inspections — even half a world away....
A post from the Energy Collective questions Whole Foods’ sourcing of organic produce from China: The allegation that foods imported from China don’t meet organic standards deserves to be taken more seriously. It’s not new:...
China Study Group looks at new initiatives by Chinese farmers to create a local version of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture): The experiment that claims to be China’s first “CSA” (community-supported agriculture) – the...
From Los Angeles Times: Unlike most farms in China, no heaps of blackened sewage sludge are piled on the fields at the Green Cow farm. No workers spray pesticides from pumps strapped to their backs. No animals are in quarantine....
In the New Yorker, Fuchsia Dunlop, author of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, writes about a restauranteur in Hangzhou who is trying to supply only locally-sourced organic...
The following quotes from Wen Jiabao, together with a denial from the official media about the State Council Party and State Organizations Special Food Supply Center is spreading through the Chinese Internet. “A government...
On China Dialogue, botanist Jiang Gaoming writes about the challenges facing the organic food industry in China: A quality of life survey conducted last year by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) – now the...
Olympics pigs aren’t the only farm animals that are living the good life in China these days: Cows at Green Yard, one of China’s first organic dairies, enjoy a pampered life in the country. They take daily strolls in the pasture. For a morning snack, the cows graze on grass untouched by pesticides. When it’s […]
From The New York Sun: Consumers turning to organic food in the wake of warnings about antifreeze-laden toothpaste, poisoned pet food, and antibiotic-laced fish may be in for a surprise. The same country blamed for those scares, China, is quietly muscling in on the organic market. Upscale grocery chains like Trader Joe‘s and Whole Foods […]
Recent horror stories about food safety issues within China and the export of tainted foods is helping spur the growth of the organic food market in China, according to Reuters: This is helping drive sales in another, though still tiny, food sector in China — organic produce. But a loose regulatory framework and sometimes just […]
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