The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress will begin the fourth examination of a draft Food Safety Law in late February 2009.  The draft Food Safety Law is based on the Food Hygiene Law, which was promulgated in October 1995.  The Food Hygiene Law will be repealed at the time the Food Safety Law is implemented. 
The Food Safety Law makes improvements on China’s food hygiene safety system in the following ways, many of which arose as a response to the “Sanlu baby formula” scandal:

Establishing a food safety risk …

It is normal, and indeed, necessary, for you to have sound reasons for taking different actions in your life. This applies to switching to organic foods as well. This is a significant change and you should know the reasons for making the shift. What makes organic foods better than the traditional ones? What benefits will you gain? What are the drawbacks? Let us discuss some of the reasons you may wish to change.
Firstly, you should be aware of how to recognize an organic food. Organic foods have a label which …

The liver is responsible for detoxifying the blood as it comes from the colon, lungs, and lymphatic system. Once detoxified, this blood moves into your entire body to provide your cells with oxygen and digested nutrients.
Because you eat, breathe, and create so many toxins, the liver has a hard time neutralizing these toxins. If you are constipated, this puts an extreme toxic load on your liver, which eventually leads to the excretion of these toxins through your skin and face. Excessive toxins coming out through your skin can lead to …

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Orion Corp., a South Korean snack maker, fell by the most in seven weeks in Seoul trading after food regulators started probing its products for possible contamination of an industrial chemical.
Orion shares dropped 7.5 percent to 148,000 won at the close on the Korea Exchange, set for the steepest decline since Jan. 2. The benchmark Kospi stock gauge gained 0.3 percent.
South Korean authorities found melamine in imported food additives used to make iron-fortified products, and issued a temporary ban on the distribution and sale of 12 …

BEIJING (AP) — Fourteen people in southern China have been poisoned after eating pig organs suspected of containing an animal-feed additive, state media said Thursday, the second such outbreak this month.
The 14 fell sick after eating pig’s liver at a dinner party in Guangzhou, in southern Guangdong province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
They were all hospitalized with stomachaches, diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, it said.
A doctor at the hospital did not give a reason for the poisoning, but said that it could be from clenbuterol, a chemical used to prevent …

The salmonella outbreak in peanut butter that has killed nine people and sickened more than 600 has earned the dubious distinction of being the biggest foodborne outbreak in American history, and it’s still ongoing. U.S. News talked with Robert Tauxe, deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Bacterial, and Mycotic Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about why this outbreak is raising such loud alarms. Edited excerpts:
As one of the nation’s top epidemiologists, you’ve investigated many outbreaks. Why is this one different?
One of the really striking things …

DAHLONEGA – The Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, Key Ingredients: America By Food, will open at North Georgia College & State University on Feb. 28 and explore the connections between Americans and the foods they produce, prepare, preserve, and present at the table. Key Ingredients is a provocative and thoughtful look at the historical, regional and social traditions that merge in everyday meals and celebrations. In 2008, it traveled to more than 150 locations nationwide.
The exhibit will open with a public ribbon cutting ceremony and reception at the university’s Library Technology Center …

Associated British Foods PLC said it expects adjusted operating profit for the first half to be slightly lower than last year as it reported good growth in Sugar and Ingredients with a better than forecast result in Agriculture and that budget chain Primark will again deliver excellent results.
It reiterated its forecast for full-year adjusted earnings to be broadly unchanged.
In a pre-close trading update for the six months to February 28 2009, AB Foods said the Grocery business will show a decline on last year with a substantial margin reduction …

Almost everyone is feeling the penny pinching their pocket in this economy, but one thing people cannot completely take out of their budget is food.
“People cut down on travel and people cut down on this and that, but people are always going to eat,” shopper Brandi Staniec said.
Shoppers have been zoning in on the frozen and canned food aisles, which usually holds products filled with tons sodium and preservatives.
“We’re definitely buying more of the things like macaroni and cheese and things like that, and a lot of it is because …

Natural and powerful defenses in a normal human body make cancer impossible; a normal healthy body cannot and will not develop cancer. With a diet of healthy, rich organic food these diseases can be reversed. Charlotte Gerson, daughter of Dr Max Gerson and founder of the Gerson Institute says nutrition alone is not the solution; we also need to remove the poisons.
All chronic diseases are the result of a dual problem, namley deficiency and toxicity. Let’s look at deficiency. One of the major problems is what we do to …