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chinaperspectives.revues.org — After a long time fighting food shortages, China has been self-sufficient in food since 1995. But in the Action Plan on Food Safety published by China’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on August 14th 2003, the government classes the following current risks relevant to food safety in China as “very serious”:

www.globalpost.com — A disease outbreak leads to new questions about a widespread Chinese culinary practice of eating dog

www.msnbc.msn.com — SHANGHAI - The death toll from a highly infectious virus that preys on children rose to 24 Sunday as it spread to a new province amid heightened efforts by China's Health Ministry to contain it.

The official Xinhua News Agency said an 18-month old boy who died in Foshan city in Guangdong province Friday had enterovirus 71, known as EV-71. Another child who died in the same district on April 25 also tested positive, it said.

The deaths follow 22 already reported in central Anhui province, 1,000 miles to the north. More than 3,000 have been infected.