Chinese leader vows to improve food safety

[rpannier]

BEIJING, China (AP) -- China's premier said Saturday the country will take steps to improve its food safety, and that the milk scandal that sickened thousands of children was a failure of regulation.

Speaking at the 43-nation Asia-Europe Meeting summit, Wen Jiabao said the crisis involving tainted dairy products will spur the introduction of China's first major food safety law and will ensure food exports meet international standards.

"Food involves a full process from the farmland to the table, it involves many links and many processes," he said. "In every link and every process we need to put in place effective and powerful regulatory measures."

In another display of government resolve, state television showed authorities burning tainted dairy products. Some 32,200 tons were destroyed this month in one province, the Xinhua News Agency said. It said about a third was infant formula made by Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group, whose products were the most heavily tainted.

link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/25/china.milk.ap/index.html

on note: He vows to cut melamine in chinese food products by 1/2 next year :sarcasm: