Still, the government has moved aggressively in recent months to enforce food safety regulations and to weed out fake or contaminated food products.
The National Fisheries Institute, a trade group, said in a statement that reputable members of the seafood community are fighting fraud, and that the federal government should "fulfill its mandate," to enforce food fraud laws already on the books.
Labour said exempting academies had allowed junk food to "creep back" into schools and it urged the government to enforce food standards across the board.
China lacks robust versions of civil institutions that enforce food and product safety in other economies — a punitive torts system, independent media and vigorous non-governmental pressure groups.
In a time when famine was commonplace and social hierarchies were often brutally enforced, food was an important marker of social status in a way that has no equivalent today in most developed countries.
To enable this, nuclear disaster response should strictly enforce food and water controls and disseminate evidence-based and up-to-date information about avoidable contamination risks.
Family role conflicts centered on who should create, observe, and enforce food restrictions; the degree of understanding each family member should have about the diabetes regimen; and whose philosophy of treatment should prevail.
It is also important to establish (or maintain) relevant legislation to enforce food industry to make clear and informative food labelling, to incorporate physical education into curriculums at girls schools, to strictly prohibit smoking at public and work places, and to increase tobacco prices and ban its selling to children and adolescents [29,30].
The skeptical public has little faith that authorities will enforce food-safety regulations.
It is time to think seriously about establishing one federal agency to coordinate and enforce food-safety regulations — and give consumers the protections they need and deserve.
