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Friday, March 22, 2013

China's commitment to tackle pollution and food safety

China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang (REUTERS/Jason Lee)

We will enhance the economic development and also creates a clean air quality, drinking water and food are safe, "
Beijing (Reuters)-China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang said China's commitment to tackling the problems of pollution and food safety firmly.

"We will boost economic development by also creating a clean air quality, drinking water and food are safe," he said, when reporters in Beijing, the inventiveness of the week.

Speaking after the close of the 12th Congress of the people of China Li Keqiang National pleads with pollution haze was very indignant that blanketed Beijing and Eastern China.

He stressed, "to solve the problem required firmness, resolution proper, clear and measurable. We will set the deadline, ".

A similar case also will be made to deal with the pollution of water and soil, which have also been contaminated industrial waste, he said, Li added.

Food security-related, Prime Minister Li said it has also become a major concern due to the Governments concerned the health and quality of life of the community.

He said the Government will firmly crack down on food safety offenders and would have to pay dearly for it.

Li Keqiang said the Government will encourage the development of science, food safety and environmentally related in a way that is more transparent.

Food security conditions in some parts of China are of concern. Some reported security breaches.

Like cooking oil recycled from the sewer, carcinogens found in milk and eggs.

In 2008, melamine-contaminated milk killed six children and making 300 thousand others sick.

Not only that some time ago, Shanghai food safety authorities found levels of antiobiotik and steroids that exceeds the standard, in fried chicken Yum Brands Inc.--sort of like KFC--.

Authorities also found the level of antiviral drugs that are suspicious at any one of the eight samples tested.
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