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Cabinet drafts rule over Food Safety Law
Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago
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The State Council is busy drafting a detailed rule for the new Food Safety Law to ensure its implementation from June 1, a senior legislator said during an online interview yesterday. It will "definitely" be announced before June and may include the...
Tags: food safety, safety law
China approves food safety law
Beijing :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility China on Saturday approved a long-awaited food safety law, state media reported, in a bid to end repeated scandals involving dangerous food products in the country. The law has been in the works since October last year after a huge scandal erupted over...
Tags: People's Daily China, food safety, safety law, human rights
Celebs may become liable for food ads
Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility Celebrities will share legal responsibility for advertising for food products that are found to be unsafe, according to the latest draft law. The draft food safety law stipulates all social organizations and individuals who recommend unsafe food products...
Tags: food safety, China, draft law
Chinese lawmakers consider insurance company investment law
Beijing :: China | 9 months ago
Credibility Insurance company shareholders could find their rights restricted if they approve risky capital operations, according to a draft amendment to the Insurance Law, submitted to Chinese lawmakers for discussion Wednesday. The draft amendment says the State...
Tags: food safety, China, draft law, NPC Standing Committee, insurance company, State Council, draft amendment
Who's minding your food? Surprise! It depends
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Lawmakers are pushing for a new government agency that would be responsible for food safety in the wake of a massive salmonella outbreak in peanuts. A bill sponsored by Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, would divide the Food and Drug Administration...
Tags: food safety
Peanut butter outbreak prompts tighter food safety
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility They say nothing is more wholesome than peanut butter, but the government may soon ask companies that make the gooey treat to prove it. The salmonella outbreak is starting to change the way the government oversees the safety of peanut butter and other...
Tags: peanuts butter, peanuts companies, salmonella outbreak, peanuts products, food safety, Ohio Department of Health, Congress
Ga. Senate Panel Considers Food Safety Changes
Blakely :: GA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Georgia lawmakers are wrestling with whether to adopt new food safety rules after a state peanut plant was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people nationwide and may have caused as many as eight deaths. The Senate Agriculture...
Tags: food safety
Timeline of events in salmonella outbreak
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Four inspections by the Georgia Department of Agriculture cite numerous, repeated violations at the Blakely, Ga., plant of the Peanut Corp. of America, a peanut processing company and maker of peanut butter for bulk distribution to institutions, food...
Tags: FBI, salmonella outbreak, food safety, U.S, Georgia Senate, Peanut Corporation of America, Senate Agriculture Committee, Blakely, president obama, sickened hundreds
USDA's Vilsack favors single food safety agency
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack believes a single U.S. agency should be created and put in charge of the food safety work now handled by a variety of agencies, said a spokesman on Friday. The spokesman was not immediately able to say if Vilsack's view...
Tags: Tom Vilsack, food safety, secretary tom, agriculture secretary
Daily Briefing
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Bank of America is selling some of its corporate aircraft fleet as the bank looks to scale back costs. Many financial firms are giving up private jet travel as scrutiny mounts over lavish spending after the companies received billions of dollars in rescue...
Tags: food safety, Senate Agriculture Committee, salmonella outbreak, Rosa DeLauro
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