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China, Japan should
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Article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i6UsJG4P6bf2R6ly7KaVsU1WfniQ 12 hours ago TOKYO (AFP) — China and Japan should
work together to monitor food and product safety, following a recent spate of
recalls and contamination scandals, the Chinese government said Friday. Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Beijing's
top economic official, called on the Asian rivals to "have a broader
dialogue and cooperation on product control and food safety," writing in
the Nikkei business daily. Ahead of bilateral cabinet-level
economic talks in Tokyo on Sunday, he said that China could "learn from
Japan, which has extensive experience in managing and overseeing product
control and food safety." Wang, who will lead Beijing's
delegation, said China's quality and safety standards lagged behind those of
many advanced nations and said cooperation on product control and food safety
should be a top agenda item at the talks. He also called for joint efforts to
ensure the safety of products such as machinery, electronics, textiles and
chemicals, including through expert exchanges and new certification schemes. Japan, a densely populated and
highly industrialised island-nation, imports 60 percent of its food, the
highest rate among rich countries. China is Japan's second largest supplier
after the United States. China's image as a food producer has
suffered since a tainted milk scandal last year, in which at least six
children died and almost 300,000 were made ill, sparking bans of Chinese
dairy products around the world. Japan in October ordered retailers
to pull Chinese green beans off shelves after a woman fell ill from eating a
product that contained 34,500 times the legal limit of pesticide. Ten people were also hospitalised,
including a girl who fell into a coma before recovering, after eating Chinese
frozen dumplings earlier last year. |
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