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China Health Ministry: Food Security 'Grim'

Regulatory system due for overhaul months after milk scandal

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(Newser) – It’s been months since a tainted-milk scandal sickened 300,000 children, but “China’s food-security situation remains grim with high risks and contradictions,” the country’s health ministry said today. With an eye on improving the regulatory system that failed to contain the milk trouble, officials fast-tracked new food-safety laws over the weekend; the new measures will take effect June 1, Reuters reports.

An Indonesian health ministry official collects food products which are suspected to contain Chinese milk at a supermarket in Jakarta, Sept. 25, 2008.
An Indonesian health ministry official collects food products which are suspected to contain Chinese milk at a supermarket in Jakarta, Sept. 25, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Local residents buy chicken at a supermarket in Yichang, central China.
Local residents buy chicken at a supermarket in Yichang, central China.   (AP Photo)
Parents with babies suffering from kidney stones are shown at a hospital in Lanzhou, northwestern China.
Parents with babies suffering from kidney stones are shown at a hospital in Lanzhou, northwestern China.   (AP Photo)
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