Exports from one of China's best-known food makers were stopped Friday after Hong Kong authorities said they found unsafe chemicals in canned luncheon meat.
A top European Union trade official urged China on Monday to make product safety a priority and do more to regain consumer confidence, prompting an angry response from Beijing.
More than 700 toy factories in booming southern China have been banned from exporting what they produce as part of a crackdown on shoddy products, the government said Thursday.
Consumer products makers Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. reported big jumps in quarterly profits Tuesday. But the stocks of both companies headed in opposite directions after P&G; issued a cautious outlook amid rising commodity costs and U.S. consumer uncertainty.
Consumer products makers Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. reported big jumps in quarterly profits Tuesday. But the stocks of both companies headed in opposite directions after P&G; issued a cautious outlook in the face of rising commodity costs and U.S. consumer uncertainty.
China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people in a crackdown on substandard goods, part of ongoing efforts to calm international worries over the quality of the country's products.
China is enforcing strict standards for its exports and will continue to work to regain consumer confidence in its products a top quality official said Wednesday.
China's state media on Monday welcomed U.S. toy maker Mattel's apology over its recalls of Chinese-made toys, saying that although overdue it should help restore the country's sullied export reputation.
China on Friday officially put in place systems to recall unsafe food and toys, one of its strongest steps yet to deal with recurring quality problems.
China has sent a notice to the World Health Organization defending the quality of its food exports, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, and an official linked to the country's drug industry was sentenced to prison in a bribery case.
Faulty American designs and conflicting global standards for safety are at the root of the mass recalls of Chinese-made toys by Mattel Inc., a top quality official said Monday.
Chinese-made blankets containing high levels of formaldehyde have been recalled across Australia and New Zealand, the distributor said Wednesday, amid rising global concern over the safety of products from China.
China has launched a new campaign to restore international trust in its products with a weeklong television series defending the country's safety standards.
Firing back over product safety fears, China's Health Ministry accused foreign media Friday of exaggerating the country's food purity problems, while a Chinese tire maker at the center of a huge U.S. recall accused the American importer of distortions.
China said Thursday it has banned lead-tainted exports by two toy manufacturers whose products were subject to major recalls in the United States, Beijing's latest effort to repair its reputation as a safe supplier.
China said Wednesday it will inspect fish farms across the country to guard against use of illegal drugs and chemicals, but insisted the majority of its seafood products were safe.
China announced Wednesday that is strengthening its food safety regulations in the wake of discoveries of toxic chemicals that prompted a slew of international bans and recalls on its exports.
China has not followed through on promises to provide information about what actions it has taken against companies that made products recalled in Europe, the EU's consumer protection chief said Tuesday.
The Chinese Embassy says China is working to stop the export to the United States of tainted food and substandard products but said Americans should first deal with flaws in their own system.
China's top quality control official accused foreign media of raising unnecessary alarm about the safety of the country's food and drug exports, complaining in particular about U.S. reports.
China banned diethylene glycol — a thickening agent in antifreeze — from use in toothpaste Wednesday, one of its most significant concessions yet as it struggles to regain international confidence in the country's beleaguered exports.
China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for approving fake medicine in exchange for cash, illustrating how serious Beijing is about tackling product safety, while officials announced steps to safeguard food at next summer's Olympic Games.
China must step up its fight against shoddy food and drugs and the corrupt officials who have let them flourish, or it faces social unrest and a further tarnished image abroad, senior party and regulatory officials said.
China's drug watchdog announced Saturday it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis in the latest move to hit the country's scandal-ridden drug industry.
China is stepping up controls on dental care products, state media reported Wednesday amid international alarm over Chinese toothpaste producers' use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze.