News from Wuhan Municipal Department of Industry and Commerce is that a food safety credit rating system is being extensively promoted in Wuhan.

Johnson & Johnson China has held a press conference in Beijing, saying that tests by the company's quality department test show that Johnson & Johnson's baby products are safe, so there is no need to withdraw them from sale or recall them.

In response to earlier reports in the international media and complaints from Chinese citizens about problems with Dumex dairy products, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has published the results of its investigation on Dumex infant formula milk powder products and says that it found no evidence of melamine contamination.

Urumqi Health Supervision Department discovered during a recent campaign that some hotels in the city are not strictly following the rules on using food additives.

News from the website of the Chinese Ministry of Health is that five Chinese ministries, including the Ministry of Health, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Food and Drug Administration, are auditing the implementation of the expanded national planned immunization service during December 2008 [...]

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.

According to Su Zhi, deputy director of the Food Safety and Sanitation Surveillance Bureau of the Ministry of Health, the ministry is working with the relevant departments to set up a blacklist system for non-food substances, particularly harmful and poisonous substances that are used to adulterate food.