A vendor waters duck eggs to keep a suitable temperature for their hatching at a market in Hefei, Anhui province June 6, 2007. China will launch a sweeping offensive against dangerous medicines and bad food. [Reuters]

"Monitoring and administering food and pharmaceutical safety must be at the very heart of grassroots and base work," it says.

The five-year plan vows that in coming years "illegal activities behind production and sale of fake and shoddy foods and pharmaceuticals will be effectively contained."

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