Proposition 2 is a simple and sensible measure that would protect farm animal welfare and food safety.

BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Nestle SA , the world’s biggest food group, opened a 70 million yuan ($10.2 million) research and development centre in Beijing on Friday, while affirming its focus on food safety amid china s milk scandal.

china s health minister urged officials to focus on fixing the problem-ridden food safety system now the flood of Chinese children hospitalized for toxic milk poisoning has eased.

BEIJING – The industrial chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in china to fake higher protein levels, state media reported Thursday, offering what appeared to be a tacit admission by the government that the food supply could be rife with contamination.

d to stop exports, amid fears the toxic threat of the chemical melamine was far more widespread than first reported.

Animal feed producers in China commonly add the industrial chemical melamine to their products to make them appear higher in protein, state media reported Thursday, an indication that the scope of the country’s latest food safety scandal could extend beyond milk and eggs.

Animal feed producers in China commonly add the industrial chemical melamine to their products to make them appear higher in protein, state media reported Thursday, an indication that the scope of the country’s latest food safety scandal could extend beyond milk and eggs.

A new online database that shows eight Nova Scotia hospitals have food safety violations may give the public the wrong impression, a hospital official says.

A new online database that shows eight Nova Scotia hospitals have food safety violations may give the public the wrong impression, a hospital official says.

BEIJING – Chinese authorities said Wednesday they were investigating how eggs came to be contaminated with the same industrial chemical at the center of a milk scandal that sickened thousands of babies, as more tainted eggs turned up in Hong Kong and the mainland.