Despite recent attempts to regulate the food industry and improve hygiene standards, new figures from China’s Ministry of Health show incidents of serious food poisoning remain high.
Our reporter Andrew Livingstone shines the spotlight on food safety progress in China.
Students at one school in northern China are being forced to leave the safety of their dormitories for crowded rented housing. Why? Well it turns out that the dormitories aren't in fact as safe as they should be. And with lingering memories of schools collapsing in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake the school authorities feel it's a case of better safe than sorry. But, as BON's Neela Eyunni reports, not everyone's happy with the decision.
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The 2008 toxic milk scandal was one of the worst food safety scandals in recent history. The chemical melamine, used in making plastics and fertilizers, had been added to watered-down milk, in order to raise protein levels and fool food safety inspectors.
The tainted milk powder was responsible for the deaths of at least six babies and caused illness in around 300,000 people.
It also caused a collapse in public confidence in food safety, brought the ever-sensitive topic of political corruption to the fore once more, as well as severely damaging the reputation of China's exports, with 11 countries stopping all imports of Chinese dairy produce.