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BEIJING, Nov. 18 -- Under fire for not having the resources to better protect consumers at home, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is deploying staff members abroad to work directly with importers and foreign regulatory agencies to guard against contaminated animal feed, counterfeit drugs, toys...
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From Jessie Jiang, a look at China's new standards for melamine in milk...
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It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. A recent BusinessWeek article discusses a criminal prosecution from late 2007 that raised the possibility that counterfeit Cisco routers have made their way into the western supply chain. Purchasers apparently include several government agencies and contractors, including branches of the military. While counterfeit products may be a major economic concern, they also present a vector for foreign concerns to inject backdoors into critical infrastructure. This scenario is rather unlikely, as it would be...
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China is recalling all liquid and powdered milk made before Sept. 14 and Chinese manufacturers must test it for melamine contamination, Chinese government news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday.
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Kazakhmys Xstrata and AngloAmerican led a tumble in mining shares in London on fears that a global recession will end the bull market in commodities.
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Oct 17 - China's dairy heartland says it has ridded its products of toxic chemicals.
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China's quality watchdog said on Saturday the latest tests on Chinese milk powder found no trace of melamine. It was the seventh round of tests for the industrial chemical since the report of the tainted baby formula scandal that left
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China must urgently reform its food safety system to increase oversight and hold businesses responsible for their products, United Nations officials said Wednesday.
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Oct 22 - United Nations food safety officials are urging China to introduce new laws to improve food safety standards after the recent tainted milk scandal.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China, fighting a spreading tainted milk scandal, needs a more coherent food-safety system, with unified laws, one overarching watchdog and faster sharing of information, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING (AP) -- China can boost public trust badly shaken by a spate of food safety scandals, including tainted formula that gave thousands of babies painful kidney stones, by enacting stricter laws and replacing its patchwork surveillance system, the U.N. said Wednesday....
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South Korea has ordered 23 tons of Chinese processed egg products to be destroyed after they were found to be tainted with melamine, the latest in a series of health scares blighting the "made in China" brand.
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The United Nations launched here on Wednesday a paper on food safety in China, giving recommendations on where the country could focus its energy in making improvements in the food safety system. The paper was released a day before the
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American Laura Diaz held a two-stroke lead after nine holes on Saturday in the second round of the 54-hole Grand China Air, the LPGA's first tournament in China.
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BEIJING, Oct. 25 -- Premier Wen Jiabao announced Saturday that China will take steps to improve its food safety, saying that tainted milk products believed to have killed four babies and sickened thousands of children represented a failure of regulation.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong, a city in southern China, has asked Beijing to investigate how melamine, an industrial chemical found in tainted milk formula, turned up in Chinese chicken eggs, newspapers said on Monday.
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Wal-Mart pulled a brand of eggs from all its stores in China on Tuesday after tests in Hong Kong found they were tainted with the same toxic chemical blamed for sickening tens of thousands of babies.
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Authorities said Wednesday they were investigating how eggs distributed by a Chinese company came to be tainted with the same industrial chemical at the center of a dairy scandal that sickened tens of thousands of babies.
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Retailer takes eggs off the shelf in China amid fears of chemical contamination. CNN's Tim Lister reports.
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Authorities in a northeastern Chinese city on Wednesday vowed severe punishment for those responsible for melamine-contaminated eggs turning up in Hong Kong as the health scare spread to another city in eastern China.
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Hong Kong officials said that for the second time in a week they have found a batch of eggs imported from China that contain high levels of melamine.
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The industrial chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China to make it appear higher in protein, state media reported Thursday.
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The industrial chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China to make it appear higher in protein, state media reported, in what appeared to be a tacit admission by the government that contamination is widespread in the country's food supply.
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Still reeling from news of melamine-tainted eggs and dairy, China launched a massive inspection into animal feed manufacturers -- seizing more than 3,500 tons of tainted feed, state-run media reported Sunday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The owner of a Chinese feed factory suspected of adding melamine to its product which turned up in tainted eggs has been detained, state media said Wednesday.
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After pulling thousands of tons of melamine-tainted animal feed, Beijing should continue to roll out more tests in the food chain -- and brace itself for more contaminated products
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A nationwide campaign has effectively curbed milk adulteration and the quality of raw milk has "greatly improved" since a scandal involving melamine tainting, a senior official said here on Wednesday. The latest tests found all 660 batches of raw milk
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Three official groups from China have canceled plans to visit Taiwan because of violent political protests last week directed against Beijing's top negotiator to the island, the local ruling party said on Monday./pdiv a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=sv7NHcTt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=zmqG0bD0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=zmqG0bD0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?a=hss2ZO9n"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/worldNews?i=hss2ZO9n" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/PF5Sk9XfewU" height="1" width="1"/
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Hong Kong food inspectors have found fish feed imported from China contaminated with high levels of melamine.
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For all the outrage about Chinese melamine, what American consumers and government agencies have studiously failed to scrutinize is the place of melamine in America's own food system.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The consumer chiefs of the European Union and the United States called on China on Monday to crack down on unsafe products, especially toys, ahead of Christmas.
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The European Union and the United States on Monday sought to bind China into international controls on product safety when the three trading blocs discussed consumer scares ranging from contaminated Chinese milk to dangerous toys.
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Representatives of the three agreed in Brussels to work towards synchronising safety standards for children's toys in the first trilateral summit on product safety
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not planning on sending troops to Afghanistan to join the International Security Assistance Force there, state media said on Tuesday.
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BEIJING (AP) -- The United States, preparing to open its first Food and Drug Administration offices outside the country, said Tuesday that it has embarked on a new strategy with Beijing to ensure that Chinese products imported into the U.S. are safe....
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Chinese officials signed an agreement with the European Union, promising to strengthen the exchange of information over faulty products.
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