China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine has reported that its Zhejiang branch has identified three pesticides in a batch of soybeans imported to China from the United States.

China's Health Minister Cheng Zhu and his U.S. counterpart Mike Leavitt said at a press conference that China and the United States would set up food safety surveillance offices in each other's country to enhance communication and cooperation on food safety between the two countries.

American-based Internet stock trading website company Scottrade has donated USD26,389 to the Tzu Chi Foundation to support of the victims of the Sichuan earthquake.

Korea-based Ceragem says the sum of its donation to welfare services in China has now exceeded RMB1 million.