China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has issued a circular which asks for a nationwide inspection of household utensils to be carried out from now until May 15, 2009.

In a move that suggests China is becoming serious about intellectual property rights, Fujian Xiapu County Court recently issued a landmark criminal conviction and heavy penalties against the Xiapu Huafeng Factory after finding the factory and its legal representative guilty of counterfeiting Honeywell's "Bendix" trademark as well as brands of several other international companies.

Shenzhen Municipal Department of Industry and Commerce has released the result of their tests of imported clothes during the third and fourth quarters of this year showing that 18 out of 30 batches of the imported clothes checked were substandard.

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.

A unified "Green Cross" sign for national pharmaceutical retail companies has been launched recently and the first ten units that will use this mark have been designated.

To show their support for the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games, Carrefour stores in Beijing asked their employees to wear clothing with China's national flag and hats with the Olympic Game logo. However only days after they began, they have been asked to stop wearing the hats by Beijing Olympic Games Organization Committee who say the [...]