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    Food Safety Law; Top-level advisory meetings open

    China passes Food Safety Law
    The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has approved a long-debated food safety law, which will impact celebrities as well as rural farmers. The State Council will soon set up a new, national food safety commission to oversee China's entire food monitoring system.

    The new law will take effect on June 1 2009. It will impose compulsory food safety standards (covering matters including product labelling), ban all non-authorised additives in food production, and give health authorities the task of assessing, approving and regulating those additives.

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