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Title : (Foreign) Food For Thought: Risks From Chinese Imports
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Source : Law360
Year : 2017
Link : https://www.law360.com/articles/499849/foreign-food-for-thought-risks-from-chinese-imports
Country : China
Commodity: AP-Meat and edible offal
Abstract: China’s role in the production of America’s food supply has been receiving increased scrutiny with in-depth documentaries investigating America’s food sources and congressional debates over a Chinese company’s potential acquisition of America’s largest pork producer. China is the third largest agricultural importer into the United States, but regularly tops U.S. headlines for widespread food contamination issues. Not too surprisingly, plaintiffs’ attorneys have also been focusing attention on purported food safety issues involving Chinese imports, and these imports appear to be the target of a growing litigation...