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." 食品伙伴个性空间fP#T
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The law, which goes into effect on June 1, 2009, will enhance monitoring and supervision, toughen-up safety standards, recall substandard products and severely punish offenders. 食品伙伴个性空间,^&H#Y7KQ0Tnn-}
-jf&a9@\"cr z;E t9m0The 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`6\&e!D"p8C6W
o(dHC K0Winning 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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1t\a+vX*rU#qIU@"?0Departments of health, agriculture, quality supervision, industry and commerce administration will shoulder different responsibilities. 食品伙伴个性空间.}*Y%{{ B G
!gfV+c'K3N0Q S x0These would include risk evaluation, the making and implementation of safety standards, and the monitoring of the food production and circulation sectors. 食品伙伴个性空间j6U"iX:H b/f8fqM}
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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." 食品伙伴个性空间4d-~4BazrU_
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Health authorities are responsible for assessing and approving food additives and regulating their usage. 食品伙伴个性空间6X,dk;p\A!Yh5p
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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. 食品伙伴个性空间 Q@@)H:D-Tv%B
A8E%v2j!X"``|8v't0Producers of edible farm products are required to abide by food safety standards when using pesticide, fertilizer, growth regulators, veterinary drugs, feedstuff and feed additives. They must also keep farming or breeding records.
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Offenders 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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The law, which goes into effect on June 1, 2009, will enhance monitoring and supervision, toughen-up safety standards, recall substandard products and severely punish offenders. 食品伙伴个性空间,^&H#Y7KQ0Tnn-}
-jf&a9@\"cr z;E t9m0The 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`6\&e!D"p8C6W
o(dHC K0Winning 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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1t\a+vX*rU#qIU@"?0Departments of health, agriculture, quality supervision, industry and commerce administration will shoulder different responsibilities. 食品伙伴个性空间.}*Y%{{ B G
!gfV+c'K3N0Q S x0These would include risk evaluation, the making and implementation of safety standards, and the monitoring of the food production and circulation sectors. 食品伙伴个性空间j6U"iX:H b/f8fqM}
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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." 食品伙伴个性空间4d-~4BazrU_
食品伙伴个性空间 K*D0|2{9e0F] fo9\*N
Health authorities are responsible for assessing and approving food additives and regulating their usage. 食品伙伴个性空间6X,dk;p\A!Yh5p
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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. 食品伙伴个性空间 Q@@)H:D-Tv%B
A8E%v2j!X"``|8v't0Producers of edible farm products are required to abide by food safety standards when using pesticide, fertilizer, growth regulators, veterinary drugs, feedstuff and feed additives. They must also keep farming or breeding records.
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Offenders 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.