Rethinking food safety problems in China

Perceptions of Food Safety by Urban Consumers in Nanjing, China

“…Government agency is essential for the regulation and monitoring of the nation's food supply. The appropriate agencies must be able to identify the threats the general public consider to be of the greatest concern, and further must know how to communicate with citizens when food safety issues arise (Ni and Zeng 2009;Lam et al 2013;Shao 2013). …”

“…Although the size of operations is increasing, there are still countless small-scale farm operations that could, deliberately or accidentally, introduce pollutants, carcinogens, and foreign or toxic substances into the food. Shao (2013) estimated that in 2011 there were more than 400,000 food processing firms in China, 90 percent of which were small operations, and 32 million firms that sell food to domestic consumers or for export. Chung and Wong (2013) estimated that small-scale food enterprises with ten or fewer employees account for 70 to 77 percent of produced and processed food production in China.…”

China food safety: Meeting the challenges of clenbuterol

“…In recent years, a series of food safety scandals have occurred in China, such as clenbuterol in pork, melamine in dairy products, counterfeit baby formula, Sudan I red dye, problem capsules, exploding watermelons, pesticide-tainted vegetables, pork reconstituted as beef, plasticizer in drinks and trench oil on dining tables (SHAO, 2013;LU & WU, 2014). Unchecked intoxicants may be highly relevant to the health of future generations and in the developing countries context may present a number of specifi c scenarios following exposure to pollutants (FRAZZOLI et al, 2009).…”