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- China pledges to prevent substandard food exports:white paper
Date: 20-Aug-2007 Sources: (People's Daily)
China issued a white paper on food safety Friday with a pledge to prevent the export of substandard food.
The first of its kind, the 29-page white paper released by the information office of the State Council provides a brief introduction of food production and quality, the food supervision system, imports and exports, as well as international exchanges and cooperation on food safety.
'The issuing of the white paper is right on time,' said Luo Yunbo, dean of food science and nutriology engineering school of China''s Agricultural University.
Professor Luo held that China''s exported food safety could be guaranteed, as the authorities operated the strictest quarantine standard over exported food.
According to the white paper, the acceptance rate of Chinese foodstuffs exported to the EU stood at 99.8 percent in the first half, followed by those exported to the United States, with the acceptance rate of 99.1 percent.
A report from Japan shows that Japan conducted more sample surveys on Chinese food (15.7 percent) than on food from anywhere else, but Chinese food had the highest acceptance rate (99.42 percent), followed by that imported from the EU (99.38 percent) and the United States. (98.69 percent).
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