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- Nation draws up export blacklist
Date: 6-Aug-2007 Sources: (Xinhua Online)
THE government has blacklisted more than 400 exporters for violating trade rules amid growing concern about the safety of goods, the commerce ministry said Saturday.
'We have set up a blacklist system for companies in the exporting sector and punished some companies that have violated laws and regulations,'Vice Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said in remarks posted on the ministry's Web site. Gao said the recent examples of companies that had been targeted included two firms that illegally added a deadly chemical to food products blamed for killing thousands of U.S. pets.
The two companies, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd. and Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd., had had their export licenses revoked, Gao said.
Gao stressed the government line that Chinese products were overwhelmingly safe and of high quality, and called on foreign media not to hype the problems of a small minority of goods or companies.
On the ministry Web site, he said a total of 429 Chinese firms on the blacklist had been punished for violating export regulations.
'China will strengthen international cooperation on the safety of products,'Gao was quoted as saying.
China, where the former drug and food safety watchdog chief was executed last month for corruption, has also cancelled the licenses of six medicine manufacturers.
The China Daily said 270 'on-the-spot drug test?vans would soon hit the roads of rural China to weed out counterfeit drugs.
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