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Safe food?

Verschiedene Skandale um vergiftete oder zumindest belastete Lebensmittel- und Tiernahrungsexporte haben auf ein Problem aufmerksam made that as the food quality in China itself is concerned. David Barboza (IHT) has an article indicates the degree of sloppiness. A recent Supreme
by the Chinese authority for matters of food inspection report issued 23 000 confirmed cases of breaches of food safety. It is not just a wild business sense of the mostly small producers who want to save costs wherever they can, it is also, and once again the all-corrosive corruption one of the reasons for the lack of supervision:

Experts here say that the country's food regulations are not being enforced and that small businesses go to extraordinary lengths to make a profit. Corruption and bribery have also infected the food and drug industry.
The former head of the food and drug regulator was recently sentenced to death for accepting bribes and approving the licensing of substandard drugs. A Ministry of Agriculture official is now on trial in Beijing for accepting bribes in exchange for endorsing food products.

But not all the problems stem from corruption or malfeasance. A.T. Kearney said in a report this week that one cause of food safety problems was a lack of cold storage and logistics systems. The consulting firm said China needed to invest about $100 billion over the next 10 years to upgrade such systems and to implement new standards. In China, the study said, there are only about 30,000 cold storage trucks. In the United States, there are about 280,000.
"In the entire supply chain there's no common standard or world class standard," said Zhang Bing, who helped prepare the study. "There are a lot of things contributing to the food safety problem. There are companies putting chemicals into food. But then there's a lot of spoilage."

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