Ensuring food safety

Picking the right souvenir to bring back from China is always a tough decision when I head home for work or vacation. Especially when Chinese foodstuff has become one of the least popular gifts among my family and friends.

For the past few years, China's food industry has been hit by one major food scandal after another.

The one involving Chinese dairy products contaminated by the industrial chemical melamine that killed at least six children and sickened 300,000 others nationwide in 2008 recently resurfaced from milk powder that was not destroyed as planned.