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By: Xinhua
Mar 10,2008 |
TOP legislator Wu Bangguo promised on Saturday to give the public more say in the formulation of the food safety law.
The food safety law, with 19 others, is on the top agenda of the Chinese parliament's legislation plan in 2008 that Wu listed in his work report to the current session of the 11th National People's Congress.
Wu said the top legislature will publicly post the draft food safety law to solicit public opinion because it is "closely tied" to the interests of the people. "We must further expand the orderly participation of ordinary citizens in legislative work," he said.
Chinese industries had come under the spotlight at home and abroad in recent years with concerns about substandard products or tainted foods.
Food-related incidents, in particular, included vegetables with pesticide residue, fish contaminated with suspected carcinogens and eggs tainted with industrial dyes.
A draft law on food safety was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee in December last year.
The government launched a four-month nationwide food safety campaign last August.
As a result, more than 1,480 people were arrested, involving 1,187 criminal investigations nationwide.
Other legislation on this year's agenda, Wu reported, includes the law on state-owned assets, the social security law, the circular economy law and the law on arbitration of disputes concerning contracted rural land, and revision of the electoral law, the organic law of the NPC and the law on state compensation.
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