China's reputation at risk Options

[swordlove]

China needs to tackle problems with food and drug quality otherwise it risks serious damage to its credibility on the international stage, the country's top food and drug watchdog has warned.


"Our country is facing a period with high risks for food safety," Sun Xianze, a senior official with the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), said.


Sun, director of the department of food safety coordination under the SFDA, made the warning at a seminar on food and drug supervision, held over the weekend.


He said authorities faced an "arduous task" ahead.


A series of Chinese food exports ranging from pet food to seafood were alleged to contain hazardous chemicals, sparkling wide concerns over the country's food and drug safety.


"The food security problems have impeded Chinese agri-products and food many times in international trade, and damaged our national credibility and image," Sun said. more

This post has been edited by swordlove: Jul 9 2007, 02:14 AM

[daphne0207]

i think the Chinese government should pay more attention to this question!

[danny94]

Why is this happening?
Chinese people should ask themselves. It is not the government who want this to happening, but is their uneducated people.

[WarEngineer]

money comes first, reputation is second...that's their problem.

to be honest, i dont blame china.

think about it, when the US was poor...it was a much worse place than in china

[CJK]

all they care about is money. basically selling their souls having no regard for the safety of consumers.
It's also the importing countries fault for taking this crap in, but then again it's too hard to enforce much of what comes in the country by ship.

the damage to china's rep is already done, not that it was highly regarded to begin with.
when you got foreign companies advertising their products as "china-free" it should be a clear wake up call for china.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/...06?feedType=RSS

[smilingredbeauty]

all they care about is money. basically selling their souls having no regard for the safety of consumers.
It's also the importing countries fault for taking this crap in, but then again it's too hard to enforce much of what comes in the country by ship.

the damage to china's rep is already done, not that it was highly regarded to begin with.
when you got foreign companies advertising their products as "china-free" it should be a clear wake up call for china.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/...06?feedType=RSS

i agree with you ,all the sin is originated from the greed/money.