Shopping for fruit at a street market in China. Recent scandals involving pet food and toothpaste in the United States, as well as those in China involving red-yolk duck eggs contaminated with an industrial dye and fish contaminated with carcinogenic residues, suggest that China’s food supply is in need of inspection! China’s food regulatory system, which is intended to function much like that of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, does not have well-developed recall capabilities or long-term supervision of the food industry. One of the main issues is that there are more than […]