Yesterday afternoon, Guangdong Province Vice Governor Lei Yulan mentioned while participating in the medical and health group of CPPCC National Committee members sub-group discussion that a batch of problem milk powder from 2008 had not been completely destroyed and recently flowed back into the market again. Relevant departments held an urgent meeting the day before yesterday and starting today will carry out a comprehensive inspection nationwide on dairy products in circulation and production phases.
Lei Yulan was originally scheduled to participate in the sub-group discussion the day before yesterday afternoon but when she told the committee members why it was postponed she said that at 1:00 AM the day before yesterday she received notification to go to Beijing that afternoon to attend an urgent meeting on special food safety rectification and arrange for a 10-day special rectification of milk and dairy products beginning February 1st. She said "Because there is still a batch of dairy products containing melamine from 2008 that has not been destroyed, some have now flowed back onto the market." But she did not disclose the amount or direction of this batch of problem dairy products.
After reviewing online materials I found that in early January this year the Shanghai Food Safety Joint Conference Office released news that Shanghai Panda Milk Products Co., Ltd. was investigated by regulatory authorities for being suspected of producing and selling dairy products with melamine exceeding national standards; in mid-January Guizhou Provincial Health Department also announced a list of four types of dairy products with melamine exceeding standards.
Deputy Director Lin Yongsheng of the City Food and Drug Administration also received notice of the special rectification. He introduced that the rectification in Guangzhou mainly focused on two points: one is to investigate whether local milk and dairy product manufacturers added old melamine raw material into their products; second is to track the direction of the problem dairy products recently announced elsewhere to see if they exist in Guangzhou's market.
Guangdong Rectifies Food Safety and Severely Punishes Those Who Defy the Law
On the afternoon of January 30th, the National Food Safety Consolidation Office convened a national video conference on food safety consolidation work. After the national conference ended, the provincial government then convened a province-wide teleconference on food safety consolidation work.
Vice Governor Lei Yulan pointed out that since February 2009, Guangdong carried out a 2-year long food safety consolidation effort targeting every aspect of food safety supervision and achieved phased results. For those food producers and operators who defy the law and repeatedly offend during the consolidation effort, they must be severely punished without mercy.
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