New Consumer Safety Regulations
PaPaPeng
Toy and food recalls introduced
By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-09-01 08:23
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/01/content_6072802.htm
The country's top quality watchdog on Friday introduced landmark
recall systems that require producers to take back unsafe toys and
foodstuffs.
Chinese children try out toys at a mall in Shanghai, China, Friday
Aug. 31, 2007. [AP]
If producers do not carry out recalls on their own, the government
will order a recall and fine the producers up to three times the value
of the products, according to two regulations published by the General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine
(AQSIQ).
The two regulations, introduced with immediate effect, follow the
introduction of a recall system for defective automobiles in 2005.
Both regulations state that producers must inform the public and
retailers, and report to the quality control authorities if it is
revealed that their products are unsafe. Retailers must immediately
stop selling the products and launch a timely investigation into the
defects or they will face a fine ranging from 1,000 to 50,000 yuan
($132 to $6,600).
Even if the products meet the country's quality safety regulations and
standards, the regulations note that toymakers should still carry out
a recall if their toys are found to be potentially unsafe.
If producers fail to voluntarily recall their products, which then
cause serious public harm, they will have their production licenses
revoked and be subject to criminal charges, according to the
regulations.
Liu Zhaobin, director of the AQSIQ's policy and legislation
department, said the recall systems were designed to strengthen the
State Council Special Regulations on the Safety Supervision and
Administration of Food and Other Products, issued in July.
"Our regulations make it very clear that producers must take the prior
and major responsibilities for preventing and eliminating unsafe
products," he told a press briefing.
Yet the AQSIQ should set up a management system of all recall
information and evaluate the recalls under the regulations.
Liu said the country did recall unsafe food and toys in the past, but
it was done "case by case" without a sound system.
The food and toy recall systems follow the issuing of a draft
regulation on drug recall last month by the State Food and Drug
Administration (SFDA), which stipulated similar recall procedures for
unsafe drugs and medical devices.
The AQSIQ also issued a regulation to standardize the inspection and
quarantine of exported aquatic products.
"As the world's largest aquatic products exporter since 2002, China
needs such a regulation to offer a legal basis for the inspection of
such products," Liu said.
These latest moves follow a spate of safety scares over made-in-China
products. Reports have revealed isolated cases of contaminated food
additives, unsafe toothpaste, seafood and even toys, and sparked
global concern over Chinese products in general.
Premier Wen Jiabao said China would face the problems squarely and
make consistent efforts to improve product quality. However, he also
noted that China did not support media hype and was against trade
protectionism.
Nancy Nord, acting chairwoman of US Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC), also warned on Wednesday against turning a product safety
issue with China into a trade issue.
"I think it will be foolish to turn a safety issue into a trade
issue," she was quoted by Xinhua News Agency as saying.
Dennis
>Toy and food recalls introduced
>By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
>Updated: 2007-09-01 08:23
>
>The country's top quality watchdog on Friday introduced landmark
>recall systems that require producers to take back unsafe toys and
>foodstuffs.
However, having laws on the books and actually enforcing them are two
different matters. Witness the illegal immigration issue in the US.
Dennis (evil)
--
What government gives, it must first take away.
Bob F
"Dennis" <dg...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:47:44 GMT, PaPaPeng <PaPa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Toy and food recalls introduced
>>By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
>>Updated: 2007-09-01 08:23
>>
>>The country's top quality watchdog on Friday introduced landmark
>>recall systems that require producers to take back unsafe toys and
>>foodstuffs.
>
> However, having laws on the books and actually enforcing them are two
> different matters. Witness the illegal immigration issue in the US.
>
I seem to remember the Chinese executing the head of their EPA recently for
taking bribes. I suspect they are serious. Their exports are important to them.
Bob
Dennis
wrote:
Sure, after the problem was discovered in already shipped product and
the incident had blown up into an international scandal, the Chinese
took very public (and dramatic) action.
Self-policing at the source is a different thing altogether.
Dennis (evil)
--
An inherent weakness of a pure democracy is that half
the voters are below average intelligence.
Anthony Matonak
...
> I seem to remember the Chinese executing the head of their EPA recently for
> taking bribes. I suspect they are serious. Their exports are important to them.
You may take note of all the other heads of agencies they did
not execute for taking bribes.
Anthony
Rod Speed
>>> Toy and food recalls introduced
>>> By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
>>> Updated: 2007-09-01 08:23
>>> The country's top quality watchdog on Friday introduced landmark recall systems that require producers to take back
>>> unsafe toys and foodstuffs.
>> However, having laws on the books and actually enforcing them are two different matters. Witness the illegal
>> immigration issue in the US.
> I seem to remember the Chinese executing the head of their EPA recently for taking bribes.
Yes, but they havent executed anyone for too mutch lead in the paint.
> I suspect they are serious. Their exports are important to them.
Bet they arent serious enough to start executing anyone any time soon.
And it clearly doesnt stop others from doing it anyway.
Bob F
"Anthony Matonak" <antho...@nothing.like.socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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Please list them.
Bob