Global efforts sought on food safety issues

China is working with other countries to tackle food safety risks as the issue is a global problem and no nation is immune, a senior official from the China Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday.

"Food safety has no boundaries," said Wang Mingzhu, the administration's deputy director-general. "The expansion of food chains has meant that food safety has become a complex global issue. A problem in a city or a country can quickly escalate into an international incident."

She was speaking on the opening day of the 2015 International Forum on Food Safety in Beijing. More than 40 world experts and government officials from home and abroad and 400 representatives from local governments and food companies are taking part.