Fake and adulterated food makers will have to pay the deserved price

ON APRIL 6, the State Council, China's Cabinet, issued a document mapping out a guideline for work on food safety in 2017 with the goal of ensuring people's health and safety. According to the guideline, a legal framework for food safety should be established and law enforcement enhanced to severely crack down on illegal activities such as producing or selling fake and adulterated food. The Mirror comments:

Food scandals have happened repeatedly in the past few years; everybody is aware of melamine contaminated milk, meat that had been stored for decades, as well as gutter oil.

There are many reasons for such dangerous practices, but one of them is that the penalties are too light. As a result, many involved in the producing or selling of counterfeit or adulterated food products simply pay a fine if caught without going to prison.