Food scandals

Faced with an ongoing barrage of food safety scandals involving everything from fake fish to more melamine in milk supplies, China has once again promised to get tough on food safety.

China's food supplies have been dangerous and even deadly in recent years, in particular the tainted-milk scandal that killed several children in 2008 and poisoned hundreds of thousands of others.

The official China Daily newspaper on Monday quoted Vice Premier Li Keqiang at the end of a food safety seminar as saying that China will take "heavy handed measures," including tougher punishment for food safety violations. Yet problems are not likely so easily solved, with corruption and rampant use of chemicals and fakes in the system.