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China to improve food supervision after tainted milk powder sickens babies

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-13 22:01

BEIJING - China is to look at improving its food quality supervision, in the wake of the contaminated milk powder case which has left one baby dead and more than 430 sick with kidney stones.

Health ministry official Gao Qiang vowed on Saturday that an efficient system should be set up to combine efforts from ministries and bring both the food safety supervision and food quality to "a new level".