China launches 5-year plan for food, drug safety
(Reuters)Updated: 2007-06-06 14:46
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A vendor waters duck eggs to keep a suitable temperature for their hatching at a market in Hefei, Anhui province June 6, 2007. China will launch a sweeping offensive against dangerous medicines and bad food. [Reuters] |
"Monitoring and administering food and pharmaceutical safety must be at the very heart of grassroots and base work," it says.
The five-year plan vows that in coming years "illegal activities
behind production and sale of fake and shoddy foods and pharmaceuticals will be
effectively contained."
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