A total of 248 people were arrested in China last year for involvement in food safety cases, food safety authorities said Sunday. In addition, according to a statement of the National Food Safety Regulating Work Office, in 2010:
- China dealt with 130,000 cases involving food, including 115 criminal cases.
- The cases touched upon such areas as production of edible agricultural produce, food production, food circulation, catering services and food exports and imports.
- A total of 191 officials were punished for failing to do their duty in food safety enforcement, with 26 of them fired, it said.
- About 2,132 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder was seized in the latest crackdown on the use of undisposed tainted milk powder.
Read the full story at Xinhuanet.
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