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Who Will Defend Chinese Dining Tables - A Review Of Chinese Food Safety Law After The Sanlu Milk Scandal, Moran Zhang
Who Will Defend Chinese Dining Tables - A Review Of Chinese Food Safety Law After The Sanlu Milk Scandal, Moran Zhang
Moran Zhang
The food safety crisis in China is increasingly becoming a social problem that no one can ignore. It may be compared with the situations of meatpacking industry in the 1900s in the United States as depicted in the Jungle. This article will explore the causation of the problem from the perspectives of environment pollution, market defect, corruption and local protection, and evaluate the effects and obstacles of implementing the new food safety law of 2009 in China in response to the milk powder scandal in 2008. Based on case studies, this article reaches the conclusion that the new law is …