NEARLY 70 per cent of the Chinese public do not feel confident about food safety, a national survey has found.
Insight China, a magazine, and Tsinghua Media Survey Lab conducted the survey, released over the weekend, against the backdrop of the government trying to restore public confidence damaged by a series of food safety incidents.
More than half of the respondents said government management and surveillance should be further improved to properly protect people from unsafe food, it said.
Among the 24 kinds of food – including vegetables, fruit, seafood, cooking oil and water-based products – Chinese consumers were mostly worried about puffed and fried food, according to the survey.
‘These products are especially popular with children and I am not sure about their health impacts,’ said Wang Linhong, mother of a 4-year-old boy in Beijing. Consumers told the survey they were also concerned about pickled vegetables, fresh meat and meat products, canned food, instant food and dairy products.
The survey found that contaminated meat products, excessive pesticide residue and abuse of food additives topped respondents’ lists of the top threats to food safety. In 2008, baby milk formula contaminated with melamine killed six children and made more than 300,000 ill.
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