China defends food exports amid health scares
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China defended the quality of its exports on Wednesday amid a spate of health scares over Chinese-made food and drugs, saying the problem was limited.
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BEIJING, May 31 -- China on Thursday strongly contested complaints it is exporting tainted food and other products to the United States, saying controls here are improving and U.S. inspectors have approved 99 percent of its shipments during the past three years.
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Even as it cracks down on product safety and substandard goods, China lashes out at critics of its exports.
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China has sent a notice to the World Health Organisation defending its food safety standards and sentenced another food and drug watchdog official for bribery, its latest moves to assure the world its exports are up to par.
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China promised to cooperate in tackling its food safety problems but urged a quick resolution.
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Pampered pigs or processed pork? Farm-fresh or greenhouse grown? With China's food supplies under scrutiny following a series of health and safety scares, Chinese officials are taking no chances for the Olympic Games this August.
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A nationwide health scare in Japan over contaminated Chinese dumplings should not harm warming Sino-Japanese ties, the finance ministers of both countries agreed on Sunday.
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China is touting the pre-emptive measures it has taken to cooperate with the world&#39;s public health establishment in fighting bird flu.
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China's quarantine bureau has suspended imports of frozen chicken and pork parts from top U.S. meat and poultry processors, even as international scrutiny of Chinese food and drug safety grows.
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China defended its food safety standards on Thursday, guaranteeing the quality of its exports and shrugging off concerns of tit-for-tat trade disputes with the United States after seizing two shipments of U.S. fruit.
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Foreign media reports on China's food and drug safety problems have hurt exports even though they have been hyped up and domestic media should help by showing the "real situation", an official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Two Asian delicacies are the subject of a simmering debate pitting merchants who like to store them at room temperature for hours against food safety regulators who worry the practice could allow bacteria to build up.
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24/08/2004 - Authorities in China are trying to calm fears over the spread of the deadly avian influenza strain H5N1 to pigs by stating that recent tests carried out on pig farms in the country have shown that the animals are now clear of the disease.
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WASHINGTON -- US officials asked their Chinese counterparts to increase oversight of food and drug exports yesterday as the list of potentially deadly products reaching US shores kept growing.
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China's customs authorities have begun checking food exports, like some proteins and glycerine which is used in toothpaste, after a series of health scares abroad involving tainted Chinese-made products.
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Chinese farm products are getting safer, the government said on Tuesday, citing tests of fruit, vegetables, meat and fish in major cities that showed more than 95 percent of products were up to standard.
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DALIAN, China  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday his country took food safety "very seriously", echoing comments by President Hu Jintao in Sydney.