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1. Business - Commodities

   Scare or no scare, customers have little choice but Fonterra

   Posted Aug 30th 2013, 01:02pm by Reuters

   ... Fonterra, where are you going to source from? That’s the issue,” said Shaun Rein, Shanghai-based managing director at China Market Research Group, who describes even big global food and beverage ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/commodities/article/1300581/scare-or-no-scare-customers-have-little-choice-fonterra
2. News - China Insider - FOOD SAFETY

   More bacteria found in Beijing fast-food ice cubes than toilet water

   Posted Jul 22nd 2013, 11:05am by Patrick Boehler

   ... be dirtier than toilet water, an investigation by China's national television revealed on Saturday. The report prompted the nation's largest fast-food chain KFC to apologise for serving ice ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1288306/more-bacteria-found-beijing-fast-food-ice-cubes-toilet-water
3. News - China Insider

   Poisoning may point to rat meat in Beijing lamb skewers

   Posted Jul 23rd 2013, 09:04am by Patrick Boehler

   ... Army, found traces of bromadiolone in a blood sample of a 20-year-old tourist from northeastern China. Doctors believe the tourist ingested the widely used rat poison during an evening of drinks and lamb skewers with his parents and girlfriend at a Beijing roadside food stand, the Beijing Evening News  reported on Monday. The patient's back and ankles were covered with bruises ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1288963/poisoning-points-rat-meat-beijing-lamb-skewers
4. News - Hong Kong - FOOD SAFETY

   Hong Kong food inspection firms urged to profit from mainland China food scares

   Posted Jul 14th 2013, 12:00am by RACHEL BUTT

   ... Rachel Butt rachel.butt@scmp.com Private food inspection business set to expand as concerns grow over mainland foodstuffs Scares and scandals point to healthy profits Food scares please ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1282092/hong-kong-food-inspection-firms-urged-profit-mainland-china-food
5. News - China Insider - FOOD SAFETY

   Don't judge China food safety on international standards, says official

   Posted Jul 11th 2013, 03:30pm by Ernest Kao

   ... Risk Assessment, told China National Radio on Wednesday. Wang stressed China was “still developing” and thus needed to base its own food safety standards on “national conditions” rather than ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1280274/dont-judge-china-food-safety-international-standards-says
6. News - Hong Kong - FOOD SAFETY

   Trans-fat found in mainland China milk formula brands

   Posted Jul 08th 2013, 12:00am by Emily Tsang, LO WEI, Celine Sun

   ... and Wyeth's, were also tested. Both products, sold in Hong Kong and the mainland, were found to contain no trans-fat. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the international food standards-setting ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1277600/trans-fat-found-mainland-china-baby-milk-formula-brands
7. News - Hong Kong - HEALTH

   Mainland Chinese mothers still back Hong Kong milk products as best for baby

   Posted Jul 08th 2013, 12:00am by Emily Tsang, Celine Sun

   ... a one-year-old son, said she was more concerned about whether the product was packed in China, although she was sure foreign brands sold on the mainland had ingredients similar to those sold in Hong Kong ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1277509/mainland-chinese-mothers-still-back-hong-kong-milk-products-best-baby
8. News - China - FOOD SAFETY

   Memories still too raw for Chinese parents to trust baby formula

   Posted Jul 02nd 2013, 12:00am by Alice Yan

   ... also reported in other provinces. The scandal dealt a devastating blow to public trust in the safety of mainland food - and especially its dairy products. Things only got worse in the following ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1273375/memories-milk-scandals-still-too-raw-chinese-parents-trust-formula
9. News - China - FOOD SAFETY

   Pearl River Delta vegetables contain excessive amounts of arsenic, other poisons

   Posted Jun 24th 2013, 12:00am by Li Jing, Amy Nip

   ... of heavy metals into the South China Sea last year. While sporadic media reports about heavy metal contamination in vegetables grown in the delta began to emerge in 2006, Yu's assessment ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1267541/heavy-metals-poison-vegetables-pearl-river-delta
10. News - China - E-COMMERCE

    China online food retailing booms after safety scares

    Posted Aug 12th 2013, 02:06pm by Reuters

    ... consumers about food quality will remain a battle. Shanghai-based Zhang Lei expressed doubt on the credentials of some products being touted as organic. "Everyone knows in China organic ...

    http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1296100/cashing-health-scares-china-online-food-sales-boom

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