Milk Scandal Spills over to Food Safety and Consumer Trust
14th October 2008 by Alex Briggs
This New York Times Media Group article raises the question “Is there more tainted food out there?”
The melamine scandal has heightened fears that the food business is racing ahead of the ability of governments to detect health-threatening contamination, whether accidental or deliberate.
As a sign of how deep the problems are, the article also stated
Now shoppers are stopping in supermarket aisles to read labels more closely. They are shunning Chinese brands and choosing international name brands instead. But even then, they are wary.
”People used to have more confidence in international brands,” said Yang Fan, a specialist on the food industry at the Shanghai offices of Euromonitor, a market research company. ”Now the multinationals have similar problems.”
