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Premier vows to enhance food supervision

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-25 19:02

BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised on Saturday to toughen supervision to ensure food security after the latest milk powder scandal.

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"Not only relevant companies were responsible for the scandal, but the government should also be held responsible for lax supervision," Wen said at a press conference at the end of the seventh Asia-Europe Meeting.

China would earnestly deal with the scandal and punish both those who were directly involved in the case and leaders who were responsible, he said.

The Chinese government would earnestly draw lessons from the scandal and ensure "effective and forceful" supervision on the production, transportation and processing of food, he added.