{"id":72,"date":"2011-01-04T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2011-01-04T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:06:16","slug":"70-of-chinese-not-confident-about-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/70-of-chinese-not-confident-about-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"70% of Chinese not confident about food safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEARLY 70 per cent of the Chinese public do not feel confident about food safety, a national survey has found.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the respondents said government management and surveillance should be further improved to properly protect people from unsafe food, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 24 kinds of food &#8211; including vegetables, fruit, seafood, cooking oil and water-based products &#8211; Chinese consumers were mostly worried about puffed and fried food, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These products are especially popular with children and I am not sure about their health impacts,&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that contaminated meat products, excessive pesticide residue and abuse of food additives topped respondents&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}