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China food safety agreement
China food safety agreement
Following a number of cases of contamination involving Chinese products imported from China, the United States and China have now signed an agreement designed to improve the safety of food exports.
Essentially, the document covers registration, certification and verification. It requires Chinese food and ingredient producers to register with local authorities, who are themselves required to share data with the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), and it also requires the authorities to notify their counterparts of events affecting the food chain. It is also understood that the Chinese authorities are to develop an electronic tracking system to follow products from production to export.
Source: www.functionalingredientsmag.com
27 Feb 2008 unicon
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