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chinese food companies should step up safety
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many chinese food companies lag behind foreign firms in ensuring food safety, partly because consumers do not trust safety certification, said experts yesterday. china has thousands of small-scale food manufacturers and many do not invest in food safety certification, said huang dejun, director of beijing orient agribusiness consultancy (boabc). “domestic food companies don’t pay so much attention to food safety. the difference between foreign and domestic food firms is quite clear,” he said. huang was speaking at a meeting of food and agribusiness leaders outside beijing to promote quality in the global food chain. much of the discussion at the closing press conference focused on china. the country is now the third largest supplier of food and agricultural products to the us but has been racked by food safety incidents in recent years, including last year’s melamine scandal that left at least six infants dead and thousands of others ill. conference participants stressed that china is not alone in facing food safety incidents but they recognized that the huge nation faces sizeable obstacles in improving standards. safe food “the chinese consumer is going to have to realize the value of safe food. larger companies putting [food safety and quality] programmes in place are having difficulties convincing consumers to pay more for those products,” said vincent paez, director of food safety business development at thermo fisher scientific. thad simons, chief executive of animal nutrition firm novus, pointed out that “there are companies in china following excellent processes”. but frequent faking of labels and certificates means chinese consumers have no reason to believe this is the case. “the consumer doesn’t know who to trust right now.” simons said retailers could play a role in building consumer trust in safe brands. also, the government needs to back intellectual property, said brady sidwell, head of advisory at rabobank’s north-east asia office. “companies would be willing to invest in food safety if the consumer is prepared to pay more, which they will. but, if there’s no brand protection and the company can’t protect its premium, then there’s no incentive for them to invest,” he said. opportunities despite such issues, participants said interest in investing in china remains strong. yangjun lu, senior financial analyst at gic, said foreign firms see “only the opportunities” in the chinese market. china has few nationwide food brands but market consolidation will force companies to pay greater attention to brand development and food safety, said huang. the country’s food and agriculture sector could be worth $1.5 trillion but two-thirds of the market has not yet been explored, he added. small and medium-sized firms need more training on food safety, said huang. “we hope we can learn from these foreign companies and draw on experience from abroad.” the us food and drug administration opened offices in china earlier this year, which is expected to help chinese firms improve standards for the export market. participants at the meeting, organised by us-based consulting and investment firm gic group and boabc, proposed to establish a global food safety forum to improve industry collaboration on the issue.
Source :foodanddrinkeurope.com
Date :
30
April
2009
Category :
restaurants and Food industrie
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at a time when so many resources are being pumped into improving consumer health through food, it is pitifully ironic that more and more people are getting sick or dying from what they eat because of safety slips. a new report published last week by the us centers for disease control and prevention reveals a 50 percent increase in e coli infections since 2004, and a monstrous 78 percent increase in vibrio infections - caused by eating raw shellfish - over the past decade.
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all stakeholders have a “duty to work together” to deliver safe food, delegates at the global food safety conference were told overnight, with the industry needing to unite in order to shore up consumer confidence in the food supply chain. in welcoming a record-breaking 675 delegates from 39 countries to the conference, managing director of the consumer goods forum*, jean-marc saubade, said consumer confidence had been shaken the world over, following a series of high-profile food safety incidents.
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food manufacturers, in creating quality products, must be mindful of the potential choking hazards associated with their products, says intertek. the global food quality and safety analysts said that a training seminar they are hosting at their us facility in october provides in depth analysis and understanding of crucial food safety issues related to choking and choking prevention.
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the adoption of 44 new and amended food safety standards by the codex alimentarius commission signals the coming changes that member countries will make to their legislation over the next year. at a six-day meeting that ended last friday in rome, the international food safety body also established a comprehensive set of risk analysis principles to help governments establish their own standards, especially for food items that are not covered by codex.
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calls emerge in south africa for the country to streamline food safety standards in the wake of the uk's sudan 1 scare. according to reports in the country's business day journal, the body that represents south africa's €25 billion consumer goods industry - the consumer goods council - resolved at a meeting last month to form a unified food standards body in south africa, similar to the european union's.
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wal-mart announced today that it will implement additional beef safety measures designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. the new process controls standards and goals are additions to a food safety program that already requires ground beef suppliers to test for e.coli o157:h7 and achieve prevention-based certification against one of the global food safety initiative (gfsi) internationally recognized standards.
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a bill to overhaul the food safety system needs to be stronger and incorporate more funding, food and drug administration (fda) commissioner margaret hamburg told a senate committee hearing on thursday. the proposed legislation is the companion bill to the food safety enhancement act that passed the house back in july, and hamburg said that she would like to see the senate version more closely resemble that legislation.
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a coalition of different environmental organisations, the zero mercury working group, claims that there are risks associated with eating fish due to its mercury content, and consumers need to be made aware of these through fish and seafood product labelling. the group maintains that the proposed european union regulation for labelling foodstuffs, currently being considered in the european parliament, should include advice for vulnerable groups about the mercury content of fish and seafood.
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