Reputation Nodai Chinese Food Crisis

Beijing (AFP)
Chinese-made food safety crisis has tarnished reputation abroad and threatens social unrest in the country, considering the number of health concerns.
Administration officials said the State Food and Drug Administration, Sun Xianze, Monday (9 / 7).
Sun urged his colleagues to take urgent measures of food surveillance.
Food safety problems have repeatedly prevented the entry of agricultural products and food of China into the international trade and damage the credibility and our national image, Sun said as quoted by the official newspaper China Daily.
The Chinese government has sought to tighten supervision of product in the midst of mounting criticism both at home and abroad that the quality of medicines, food and various products they are weakly regulated.
In a seminar on Saturday (7 / 7), Sun said food safety problems apparently caused pesticides and veterinary drug residues in food, industrial use of content in plant food and bacteria that are dangerous, the official Xinhua News Agency wrote.
Food safety issues and individual cases not only had an impact on the development of the healthcare industry, but also affected the local economy and social stability, said Sun is Director of the Department of Food Safety Co-ordination Agency.
He registered domestic cases from last year including fish tainted drugs, ban the use of Sudan dyes in dye egg yolk, pork tainted elenbuterol, a ban on food additives.
leukemia drug
Previously, a leukemia drug manufacturer based in Shanghai prohibited by Chinese drug supervision, after some patients reported suffering from leg pain and difficulty walking on Monday (9 / 7).
Administration State Food and Drug Administration said late last week has suspended sales of artificial methotrexate Hulian Shanghai Pharmaceutical Company Limited. The drug was widely used to treat leukemia and other cancers as well as autoimmune diseases such as rheumatism. We are responsible for our patients and address the serious issue Qinxie inikata Yin, a spokesman for Shanghai Pharmaceutical (Group) Company, China's largest drug manufacturer.
Yin said his company received a report July 6 that some patients who received multiple doses of methotrexate leg pain and had difficulty walking.
The experts discussing and investigating this. We try to understand this problem as soon as we get a bad reaction to reports that,? Yin added.
The Chinese government tried to tighten the regulation of drugs. A few weeks ago, a former head of the Department of Administration State Food and Drug Administration was sentenced to death for case preparation. The government announced the authorities pulled the production licenses of five drug manufacturers more than a year and impose fines for the other 128 companies.