City lawmakers call for better food safety

Beijing's legislature yesterday urged the municipal government to overhaul the city's food safety system, particularly to avoid any scandals during the upcoming Olympic Games.

The capital should improve supervision of food safety and crack down on small agricultural-products markets, restaurants and family-run food processing mills, Lin Wenyi, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress, said at the committee's 37th session yesterday.

She noted that sanitary conditions at such businesses were worrying.