China Certification & Inspection Group has reportedly issued the Green Market Certification to Carrefour's six stores in Beijing, making the French supermarket one of the first retailers to gain the certification in the Beijing region.

According to the 21st Century Business Herald, the non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart which is allegedly selling genetically modified rice in China.

Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce has published a notice disclosing that the Chinese dairy product manufacturer Beingmate has violated sales rules when selling its dairy products.

The international environmental group Greenpeace has released its latest "Supermarket List for China" which shows that foreign-funded supermarkets such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, and Ito-Yokado rank at the bottom of the list in terms of green initiatives.

In a response to a Greenpeace report that said fruit and vegetables sold in four major supermarkets of Beijing contain high levels of pesticide, China's Ministry of Health has stated that all the fruit and vegetables sold in these supermarkets are fit for consumption.

According to Eric Legros, the CEO of Carrefour China, the company plans to enhance purchase of agricultural products from Chongqing, and the French retailer is expected to buy fruit and vegetables of over CNY100 million in the city in 2010.

A new Chinese law that some companies see as trade protectionism is at least allowing people to live a bit healthier. In accordance with China's Administrative Measures for Tobacco Monopoly Licenses, foreign retailers — including Carrefour and Metro — have been ordered to stop selling tobacco products in their Chinese outlets from the beginning of [...]