Premier Says China to Ensure Safe Food

BEIJING — China's premier said Saturday the country will take steps to improve its food safety, blaming the tainted milk products believed to have killed four babies and sickened thousands of children on a failure of regulation.

Speaking at a 43-nation Asia-Europe Meeting summit, Wen Jiabao said the milk scandal will spur the introduction of China's first major food safety law and China's food exports will 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 what was burned was infant formula made by Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group, whose products were the most heavily tainted.

Source: The St. Augustine Record