Stronger regulations can help meet people's expectations for safe food

YUE GUOJUN, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was recently reported as saying the country now enjoys its best-ever food safety. His words provoked widespread criticism online. Beijing News comments:

It should be emphasized, first of all, that the widely quoted sentence is only part of Yue's comment. He said that currently China enjoys better food safety protection than at any time in history, while adding that China needs to further strengthen its food safety regulations to meet people's expectations. It is unfair to label him a "eulogist".

Although we do not know how Yue reached that conclusion, it is to be expected that the public would not agree with it, because there are still too many food safety scandals.