BEIJING — China's four-month food safety campaign managed to hit its targets early, with officials seizing thousands of tainted products and putting many unregulated shops and eateries out of business, a state newspaper said on Thursday.
Scandals involving substandard food, drugs and other goods are reported by Chinese media almost every day, and the issue has burst into the international spotlight since tainted additives exported from China contaminated pet food in North America.
The nationwide sweep netted 2.76 million pounds of substandard food and 945 tons of pork which had been slaughtered in illegal abattoirs or came from pigs which had died of disease, the Communist Party's People's Daily reported.
Inspectors shut 192,400 unlicensed food producers and pulled 29,800 products from the shelves, the front-page report added.
Read the full Reuters story here.
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