America set up a working group on import safety

President George W. Bush has just formed an ' import safety working group ' under the federal government.

The function of this group is to study and propose solutions to ensure safety for all food products and other products imported into the United States to improve US surveillance of the items. imported goods. The group is headed by Minister of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt, who will submit proposals to President Bush in the next 60 days.

However, the White House has denied that the purpose of the group's establishment is to target China, which has been infamous for containing hazardous substances exported to the US and many countries in the world recently. like fish, seafood, toothpaste, children's toys . ' This is just a normal action in business. We import food from 150 countries. Monitoring all these products is very important, ' said White House spokesman Tony Snow.

Representatives of food inspection agencies at a market in China (Photo: CNS)

The announcement of the US decision took place on the same day (18-7) with the Beijing Television (BTV) officially apologizing to the audience for the news that " dumplings cover " was played by BTV on July 8, but the station This is now considered ' false news '. The editor said the news was staged by an editor of the station's seasonal contract, who was arrested by the police and will be prosecuted according to law '.

It is unclear how bad this event is. Tin does not provide this editor's name, only if they are Tu; nor explain the phishing motive of Tu. However, according to Kinh Hoa and Tu, pseudonym Ho Nguyet, worked in CCTV and transferred to BTV since 2006. According to CNN, Tu's motive is to be appreciated by his boss.

BTV just explained: 'Tu went to a Chaoyang bakery, excused to prepare a dumpling shop for workers to ask the two couples to sell dumplings nearby to help make cakes. She brought her own meat, flour, cardboard, and instructed them to take the cardboard cover soaked with water and mixed it into meat to make dumplings so that he could record the whole process of making cakes'. Beijing police arrested these four people and said they only regularly sell soy milk, not dumplings, and also do business without permission.

Since cases of China's unsafe products in turn have been discovered all over the world, the government has tried to save the reputation of ' made in China '. Many measures were taken: closing up to 180 substandard food processing plants, banning some unidentified drugs and confiscating fake blood proteins in hospitals, banning the use of diethylene glycol in toothpaste, At the same time, he warned that thousands of small-scale food processing factories would be closed if they did not meet hygiene standards. President Hu Jintao himself on July 18 pledged to promote improved food safety.

China also reacted on the media front. Earlier this week, the director of China Quality Control Agency criticized international media, especially some newspapers in the US, for giving " unnecessary warnings to distract consumers." 'for' made in China 'products.

Yesterday, the People's Daily reported that China will hold a meeting with the US in Beijing at the end of July to find a solution before the US Food and Drug Administration threatened to stop importing five faces. Chinese fish products, and set up a mechanism for cooperation on food safety between the two countries.

Evaluating these efforts, Harvey Hoffenberg, director of the Propulsion Marketing Company, based in the US, thinks that quick response is not enough to solve the problem.'Consumers can only be easily ignored when they feel really comfortable'.

THANH TRUC - POLICE

According to CNN, Reuters, China Daily, BK New, BK Morning, TTO