The United Nations has told China it needs a more coherent food-safety system, to prevent issues such as the milk-taint scandal.
China has been bedeviled by many food-and product safety scandals over the past two years.
In the latest case, thousands of Chinese children remain ill after drinking milk formula contaminated with the chemical melamine.
Four babies have died from drinking the contaminated product.
Jorgen Schlundt, the World Health Organisation's food safety chief, said China has a disjointed system with dispersed authority between different ministries and agencies, resulting in poor communication.
He said the country would need a system to cover the full “farm-to-fork table.”
Source: Malaysian Sun
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