Crackdown Provoked by 'Lean Meat Powder'
CHINA - By late October, Henan province courts had tried 59 cases related to "lean meat powder", a substance used illegally to stimulate muscle growth in pigs.

113 Penalised Over Chemical Tainted Pork
CHINA - Central China's Henan Province, a leading agricultural base, has issued heavy sentences to 113 people, including 77 government employees, over a chemical tainted pork scandal reported in March...

Shandong Issues New Pork Quality Rules
CHINA - East China's Shandong province issued new rules that require all pig abattoirs to keep records of animal's source, circulation and consumption information to guarantee its safety, according to...

China Rolls Out Food Safety Campaigns
CHINA - China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said on Friday (6 May) that it has launched a series of campaigns to deter illegal activities in the food sector in the wake of several notorious food safety...

Pork Supplied to Macao Safe
CHINA - The inspection and quarantine department of Zhuhai, Guangdong province, has said that pork supplied from the Chinese mainland to Macao has been free of clenbuterol, a toxic additive and the cause...

Who Can Guarantee China's Pork is Safe?
CHINA - Detection of the toxic additive clenbuterol in pig feed has once again undermined Chinese consumers' confidence in the country's food producers.

China Prosecutes 16 Officials in Pork Scandal
CHINA - Chinese prosecutors have placed official charges against 16 officials for dereliction of duty, failing to ferret out and block contaminated pork produce in central Henan, the country's most populous...

Pig Farmers Told to Drug Livestock
CHINA - Middlemen were found ordering individual pig raisers to feed the animals a banned chemical that promotes lean pork in order to fatten profits.

Tainted Pork Case 'an Isolated Incident'
CHINA - Sweeping spot-checks of thousands of pigs in Henan province found only a very small minority had been fed with the banned substance, clenbuterol.

System to Assess Govt Food Safety Supervision
CHINA - China vows to strengthen its regulation of food quality to eliminate concerns over food safety and to adopt a system to assess the efficiency of the quality supervision and inspections undertaken...

Chinese Crackdown on Contaminated Pig Feed
CHINA - China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said yesterday, 28 March, that the government would launch a one-year crackdown on illegal additives in pig feed which have proven to be toxic to humans.

Further Probe into Pork Problem
CHINA - The State Council's call for a thorough probe into the scandal of feeding pigs with banned substances on Monday will help re-establish the public's confidence in the government. The working group...

China Orders Crackdown on Illegal Meat Additive
CHINA - A Chinese central government taskforce has ordered Henan's local authorities to crack down on illegal production and use of clenbuterol, a chemical poisonous to humans.

Huge Recalls Under Way as Pork Scandal Continues
CHINA - Supermarkets across the country were busy recalling meat products at the weekend and taking packages off the shelves as a result of the growing scandal in which a banned substance was found in...

Safety Tests on the Menu After Meat Scandal
CHINA - The battle to intercept contaminated meat products before they arrive on the dinner table is continuing across the country but some consumers are saying their confidence has been rattled following...

Pig Feet and Ears Included in Import Ban
CHINA - Pork bi-products from Germany are atop the Chinese government's list of newly banned imports, a senior German agricultural ministry official said yesterday.

CIMIE: Looking to Sustainable Production of Safe Meat
CHINA - The Chinese government has promised to back the sustainable and hygienic production of meat and food, writes ThePigSite senior editor, Chris Harris from the China International Meat Industry Summit...

CIMIE: Meeting Global Meat Industry Challenges
CHINA - Global meat demand is expected to grow by 40 per cent by 2025, writes ThePigSite senior editor, Chris Harris, from the China International Meat Industry Summit in Beijing.

'Diseased Pork' Being Sold in Some Regions
CHINA - The State Administration of Industry and Commerce on Tuesday night (9 February) issued an urgent notice to inform consumers and local law enforcement officers that "diseased pork" is being sold...

Diseased Meat Shop Closed in Tongzhou
CHINA - A butcher shop selling diseased meat in Daxingzhuang village, Tongzhou district was shut down by local government on Monday following a public tip-off.

Pigs Get ID Chips in Southwest China
CHINA - Starting Friday, pigs in southwest China from have started having two identity chips fixed on their back legs detailing where they were butchered, examined and sold.

China Denies Imposing Restrictions on EU Imports
CHINA - China has never placed any restriction on pork imports from the European Union (EU), and its demand for health certificate from the EU imported pork was needed to prevent the spread of A/H1N1 flu,...

WPC REPORT - Pledge for International Cooperation and Transparency
CHINA - The International Meat Secretariat has set out a seven point pledge to enhance transparency, animal welfare food safety and cooperation within the global pig meat industry at the World Pork Conference...

USMEF: Reaction of Chinese Consumers to H1N1
CHINA - Nearly two-thirds of China’s consumers stopped eating pork in the early stages of the H1N1 influenza outbreak this year, and more than one in five consumers in the world’s largest pork market...

WPC REPORT - Chinese Consumers Flu Virus Fears
CHINA - A quarter of the Chinese population believe that the A/H1N1 flu virus can be caught through eating pig meat.

China to Formulate Food Safety Standards
CHINA - China is now working on a new system of food safety standards that is expected to guarantee people's health and be more compatible with international norms, said a senior health official on Saturday...

Chinese Pigs Fed Harmful Chemicals
CHINA - Many Chinese farmers continue to skirt the ban on chemical additives in food for pigs, increasing the risk of disease and illness in humans, according to a report from the nation's top legisla...

World First: Chinese Scientists Create Pig Stem Cells
CHINA - Scientists have managed to induce cells from pigs to transform into pluripotent stem cells – cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any type of cell in the body....

Shanghai FDA Looks Out for Tainted Processed Pork
CHINA - The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration is closely monitoring pork products in local markets as the harmful chemical, clenbuterol, was found in processed pork in Anhui Province.

Tainted Pigs Slaughtered in Guangzhou
CHINA - After a random test revealed that 19 pigs out of a shipment of 149 were contaminated by harmful additives, food safety authorities decided to cull the whole herd.