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China names and shames companies for exporting substandard food products (3) |
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19:47, July 10, 2007 |
The government has come under great pressure to improve food safety following a series of controversies caused by substandard food, ranging from drug-tainted fish to banned Sudan dye used to color egg yolks red.
A survey showed that about 20 percent of products made in China for domestic consumption failed to meet quality and safety
standards in the first half of 2007.
The survey, conducted by the GAQSIQ, covered 7,200 different products from 6,362 enterprises, with an emphasis on food, daily commodities and farming machinery and fertilizers.
The administration found that 93.1 percent of products made by large enterprises were up to standard -- the figure was 84.2 percent for medium-sized enterprises and 72.9 percent for small enterprises.
Wu Jianping, director of the department of production supervision under the GAQSIQ, said China had about 448,000 food manufacturers, 78.7 percent of which were small factories with fewer than 10 employees.
"Food produced by small factories and workshops is one of our top concerns, and the small food workshops are the key targets in our food safety campaign," Wu said.
To improve food safety, the government laid out a five-year plan to tighten the supervision of food and drug products and promised to "significantly reduce the number of incidents caused by substandard food or drug products" by 2010.
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