China, EU to share more food safety info

By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-07-24 09:04

Also, about 1.1 percent of the food products from Japan to China in the first six months were not up to standard.

Last week, the AQSIQ issued a warning and asked for tighter control over aquatic products from Japan after infective anisakis worms, a genus of parasitic nematodes, was found in two types of fish from the country. The worms can cause violent abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting within hours after ingestion.

Today, Kuneva will meet with senior officials of the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, and head for East China's Jiangsu Province to visit toy factories and test centers to see how Chinese surveillance works.


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