China adopts Food Safety Law

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BEIJING -- China's top legislature approved the Food Safety Law on Saturday, providing a legal basis for the government to strengthen food safety control "from the production line to the dining table."
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The National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee gave the green light to the intensively-debated draft law at a four-day session, following a spate of food scandals which triggered vehement calls for overhauling China's current monitoring system. 食品伙伴个性空间z;z[,dM bm4E/B;[
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Winning 158 out of the 165 votes, the law said the State Council, or Cabinet, would set up a state-level food safety commission to oversee the entire food monitoring system, whose lack of efficiency has long been blamed for repeated scandals.
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The law stipulated a ban on all chemicals and materials other than authorized additives in food production, saying that "only those items proved to be safe and necessary in food production are allowed to be listed as food additives."
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Food producers must only use food additives and their usage previously approved by authorities, on penalty of closure or revocation of production licenses in serious cases, according to the law.
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6_ e%I yql0Offenders could face maximum fines which would be 10 times the value of sold products. If businesses are found producing or selling a substandard foodstuff, consumers can ask for financial compensation which is 10 times the price of the product. That's in addition to compensation for the harm the product causes to the consumer.
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To better protect consumer rights, the law bans food safety supervision and inspection agencies, food industry associations and consumers' associations from advertising food products.
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Individuals or organizations are prohibited from advertising substandard food products. Those advertising such products would face joint liability for damages incurred.
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The law has been revised several times since it was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for the first reading in December 2007. In April 2008, it was opened to public scrutiny and more than 11,000 comments were made to the lawmaking body.  

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Food  World lanbo78 发布于2009-03-03 00:52:30
China adopts law to strengthen food safety control, vows to punish offenders
China's top legislature approved the Food Safety Law on Saturday, providing a legal basis for the government to strengthen food safety control "from the production line to the dining table."
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Winning 158 out of 165 votes, the law said the State Council, or Cabinet, would set up a state-level food safety commission to oversee the entire food monitoring system, whose lack of efficiency has long been blamed for repeated scandals.
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The law draft had been revised several times since it was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for the first reading in December 2007.
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It had been expected to be voted by lawmakers last October, but the voting was postponed for further revision following the tainted dairy products scandal last September, in which at least six babies died and 290,000 others were poisoned.食品论坛;食品社区R6|e {](Q]o ~

9~R oI@Bm~"It actually took us five years to draft this law since the State Council first made legislative recommendations in July 2004.It has undergone intensive consideration, because it is so vital to every person," Xin Chunying, deputy director of the NPC Standing Committee's Legislative Affairs Commission, said at a press briefing after the law was adopted.

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She said although China had certain food quality control systems in place for many years, lots of loopholes emerged in past years, mainly due to varied standards, lack of sense of social responsibility among some business people, too lenient punishment on violators and weakness in testing and monitoring work.
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In the tainted dairy products scandal, melamine, often used in the manufacture of plastics, was added to substandard or diluted milk to make protein levels appear higher than they actually were.
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"Melamine had never been allowed to be used as food additive in China. Now the law makes an even clearer and stricter ban on it," Xin said.食品伙伴个性空间T6p$KuVPS2CL
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For those whose food production licenses are revoked due to illegal conducts, they will be banned from doing food business in the following five years.
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"This is a big step to increase penalties on law violators," Xin said.

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The law says all organizations and individuals who recommend substandard food products in ads will face joint liability for damages incurred.
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On tonic food, a booming industry with an estimated annual output value of 100 billion yuan (14.62 billion U.S. dollars) in China, the law prohibits any claims related to prevention or cure of illness on the product's label and instruction leaflets.
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China has passed a new law creating a national food safety commission. The Chinese congress approved the new legislation Saturday. The law, which comes in the wake of a series of tainted food scandals, aims to tighten supervision and increase penalties for offenders.  space.foodmate.net
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)U7AY^*m'?0[)]DThe new law was passed by the National People's Congress Standing Committee Saturday, winning 158 out of 165 votes. It replaces a food hygiene law passed in 1995.
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|?|2{AJx食品伙伴个性空间According to China's Ministry of Health, the country's food-security situation appears grim.
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China saw several tainted food product scandals in the last year, including milk spiked with the chemical melamine that sickened 300,000 children and killed six babies.
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Several dairy industry executives and milk suppliers have already been sentenced by the courts, yet consumer doubt remains high. Complaints were also lodged against some imported dairy products, including Dumex brand milk powder, whose raw materials come from Australia and New Zealand.
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At Monday's State Council news conference, Li Yuanping, spokesman of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told reporters the inspection of imported and exported dairy products has intensified since the milk scandal broke in September.
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Spokesman Li said samples of Dumex dairy products were all inspected and met temporary standards for melamine content.space.foodmate.netB hq@1]k
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Domestically, China has 450,000 registered food production and processing enterprises, but the vast majority of them employ just 10 people or less. A U.N. report last year said the challenge of overseeing these small businesses is one of China's biggest hurdles in ensuring food safety食品伙伴个性空间*JsV5e.mcZcUA

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xiyu0917发布于2009-03-23 17:57:35
Good news for food industry~~~
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i hope i can learn something。
caasmxf发布于2009-03-30 15:15:35
good information, I am studying...
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