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Laws are written on paper. That paper defines the line between
lawful and unlawful. The line may be sometimes gray, but there is
a line. China is shuffling paper to move that line, and make existing products and companies look better.
China's safety laws have been violated by their own
companies. They have exported products to us. Those
products included low quality steel masquerading has good steel; poison
toothpaste; rotting seafood, etc.
Now
China is altering the laws, moving the line. It's more paperwork,
but ambiguity will be good for them. Clarity is not.
Hit
"read more" to see how the Chinese Office of the Product Quality and
Food Safety Leading Group of the State Council is approving, licensing
and labeling many, many food products now.
China meeting product quality, food safety goals, government says
By Tom Johnston on 10/9/2007 for Meatingplace.com
Beijing says it is making progress in meeting product-quality and
food-safety initiatives it established in response to worldwide outcry
over tainted Chinese imports.
The Office of the Product Quality and Food Safety Leading Group of the
State Council, according to Xinhua News, reports it is making strides
in attaining 100 percent compliance in several areas.
By the end of September:
- 79 percent of food production and processing firms in China have obtained production licenses
- 66 percent of small processing workshops have signed food quality and safety pledges
- 100 percent of all illegally imported pork and other goods have been destroyed
- 100 percent of transport packaging of export foods has been affixed with inspection and quarantine labels
- 94 percent of agriculture produce wholesale markets in big and medium-sized cities are now subject to market monitoring
- 83 percent of food operators in cities at or above county seat level have implemented procedures to demand invoices for purchase
Given the success to date, the government said it would continue its
rectification efforts in order to complete them in a timely manner.
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