Beijing residents will be able to check up sanitary records of
local restaurants by one click of computer mouse at the end of this
year.
By then, the China capital will have put online sanitary
conditions of over 20,000 restaurants, in its latest attempts to
ensure food safety, according to the municipal information
office.
It said the city can collect food safety information from 39
domestic and overseas Web sites, enabling it to issue timely
warnings to the public.
Beijing will focus more on the supervision of manufacturing,
transportation, storage and consumption of food. It strives to
avoid supervision loopholes which are often blamed for food safety
cares, reported a local news paper on Thursday.
The recent scares in China include parasite-infested snails,
steroid-tainted pork, cancer-causing turbot and ducks and hens that
were fed cancer-causing Sudan dye to make their yolks red.
In one case, four people who were sickened after eating snails
in Beijing's Shuguoyanyi Restaurant this summer are suing the
municipal health bureau for failing to warn the public for weeks
after it learned of the danger.
(Xinhua News Agency November 24, 2006)