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CHINA is reassessing its food safety supervision, while yesterday closing a chemical plant linked to the deaths of 94 people in Panama and shutting two companies with products linked to pet deaths in the United States.
The country's product safety watchdog yesterday revoked licenses and shut factories run by the Taixing Glycerin Factory, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co Ltd and Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co Ltd.
An unspecified number of managers at Xuzhou Anying and Binzhou Futian have been detained, and police are also investigating the two companies, said the General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
"Food safety is not an issue of a certain nation, but a global issue," said Li Changjiang, minister in charge of AQSIQ.
He said new measures will be taken to enhance food safety supervision after investigations and study. The existing system involves at least five central government departments. These supervise farming, production and processing, and distribution and selling.
Li said China was trying to tackle food safety in a comprehensive way.
"To ensure the quality of food exports, the Chinese government has set up a monitoring system that covers plantations, breeding farms and production bases," said Li. "Only products that pass strict quarantine inspection are allowed to be exported.
"But we do have a number of problems in food safety as a lot of small manufacturers run in poor production conditions," the minister said.
The Taixing Glycerin Factory has been accused of selling industrial "TD glycerin," a mix of 15 percent diethylene glycol and other substances.
It eventually ended up in Panamanian cough syrup and other medicines that killed at least 94 people.
The government also detailed punishments against Xuzhou Anying and Binzhou Futian, the two companies linked to melamine-tainted wheat gluten blamed for the deaths of dozens of dogs and cats in the US.
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