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Online 'passports' to make Chinese foods safer
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by JeffHuang | October 21, 2008 at 08:41 am
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ChinaTrace is creating an electronic "food passport" for Chinese foods dissecting each ingredient from the origin and source. This online listing also shows whether or not the products have gone through any tests.
An online listing of the provenance of Chinese foods is being created that might have contained the recent melamine-in-milk scandal.
ChinaTrace, a joint venture between the Shandong Institute of Standardization in China and TraceTracker of Oslo, Norway, will create electronic "food passports" stating how ingredients of foods for export were sourced and what, if any, tests they have undergone.
With the heavy scrutinization on Chinese products recently, they are doing anything they can to damage control as well as gain confidence from the rest of the world. This technology is a start in the right direction but skepticism still lingers from many. Fang Shi Min, founder of New Threads, believes without regulation, the industry will never be cleaned up.
Fang Shi Min, founder of New Threads, a website that exposes fraud and corruption in China, says milk adulteration has been a problem for at least 10 years, first with urea and now melamine. "It's widely practised and an open secret," he says.
It is no Online Passport, but we have our own list of recalled Melamine milk products at Nowpublic.
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at 09:04 on October 21st, 2008
It is great there are moving in this direction but it is probably not going to be very cost effective to track every single unit online.
at 14:46 on October 21st, 2008
Hello Jeff :
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It's happy to seeing my photo is useful for you : )
(SORRY for my poor English. 囧)
at 18:33 on October 21st, 2008
JeffHuang, I like this story. It's good stuff. This is good news if they follow through. The stuff they were using was called an elixer -- sugar, corn starch, urea and melamine. What a stew!
at 21:42 on October 21st, 2008
After 1 month of no-milk life, I bought a box of milk with a lable of "no melamine detected".
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at 08:53 on October 30th, 2008
JeffHuang, a great roundup item. Labels used to be a kind of food passport, but who reads or understands labels these days? It would be neat if this somehow morphed into smart labels/passports that could be read at checkouts. That way, you could get a warning if you bought a recalled or otherwise 'alerted' item.
at 18:59 on November 8th, 2008
share for everyone.
Milk Product.
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