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2009-06-09 PR-USA. net - IUFoST and CIFST Form Expert Panel on Food Safety Dedicated to Improving Standards Within China

China and rsquo;s food industry is currently experiencing a significant transformation, and food safety in China is also facing profound challenges. This is due to a combination of domestic and external forces that are changing the way food is monitored and standardized not only in China, but around the world. China took a major step towards improving national food safety standards on when the National People and rsquo;s Congress approved the and lsquo;China Food Safety Law and rsquo;. This law took effect on and will have broad implications for what will be permitted within the Chinese food industry. Along with other sectors, food safety management systems and inspection systems will be undergoing dramatic changes. The international exchange of ideas and collaboration on food safety issues are extremely important

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2009-01-28 Chinese plastic food packaging industry experienced challenges in 2008

In China, the food and beverage plastic packaging market has experienced impressive growth over many years. It is mainly due to the replacement of traditional packaging materials, rapid growth in the food industry, and the improvements in polymer properties and processing technology. In 2007, the sales revenue of plastic food and beverage packaging was approximated at RMB115 bln, with a growth rate of about 18. 5 pct. Around 6,042,000 tons of plastics were used in the food and beverage packaging industry. According to Frost and Sullivans China Consultant of Chemicals, Materials and Food Practice Sammi Sun, the Chinese plastic food packaging industry experienced a challenging period in 2008. In the first half of 2008, the skyrocketing increase in plastic raw materials and much stricter regulations in China pushed a lot of small scale

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2009-07-24 The Fast Food Industry all Cut down Their Prices in Droves in China - Eileen Gu -- Seeking Alpha

More and fresher promotion measures will take up this year apart from the price reduction. For example, some Chinese style fast food stores release the preferential cards or send specialty, which all become the most common promotion means. The domestic economic environment is still not very promising this year in China. The figures showed that the international financial crisis has affected the fast food industry and the customers have poor confidence on the consumption. The battles between Chinese style fast food and the western style fast food become fiercer so as to stimulate the consumption and attract the attentions. It is inevitable to take place the price competitions in large scale. It is viewed that the price competition will become the normal competition situation of the fast food industry in China.

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2009-08-20 The Star Online: Blog

Until today I have not seen any Malay restaurants that sells vegetarian food and it is very frustrating. Like the Chinese who is quick to learn that many Malaysians are becoming vegetarians irrespectice of race. So the Chinese have vegetarian chee cheong fan, char koay teow, koay teow thng, wan tan mee, nasi lemak, mihun and mee and the list goes on. So whoever is vegetarian and loves Chinese food, they still can enjoy all the noodles and other foods of Chinese. Similarly, the Malays should attract more non-Malays to their eateries. I am just waiting for the moment when I can get nasi paprid vegetarian, nasi kampung, nasi belacan (vegetarian belacan is available and it is halal), ikan asam pedas (vege fish) etc. The Malay food is simply delicious and should be made available to the vegetarian community. In that manner, many

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2009-11-25 The Cavalier Daily Breaking with Turkey Tradition

Every year for Thanksgiving, my family and I pile into our car and drive to Maryland to spend the holiday with my uncles family. My uncles wife is Chinese, and when she was young, her family moved from Taiwan to Canada and then later to the United States. Both my uncle and aunt are excellent cooks, but my aunts mother, Sheila, can really work wonders in a kitchen. That year, she was preparing a feast for us with recipes she brought from Asia, meaning that this Chinese food was not the greasy paper containers and fortune cookies characteristic of Americanized Chinese fast food, but rather a genuine form of these treats. I could hardly wait to taste this cultural spread and try something new.

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2009-05-22 Cuisine Corner - Precious - Opinion

Ive walked by the restaurant many times before, but for some reason I just never gave it a chance, much like many of the other restaurants in Hoboken. From the outside, it looks like a pretty modern and nice place to eat, which usually means that its going to be expensive; however, that was not the case. I first walked in to an unsightly hospital curtain that did an effective job blocking the cold from the outside. It is about the same size and set up as other Chinese restaurants in town, but just a touch on the classier and more modern side than average. The service was excellent. Even when there were multiple tables, the food came out quickly and my glass was never without water.

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2009-06-29 Hold onto your stomachs: Chinese fish are on the way - Opinion - Macon

Granted, some of the hysteria over Chinese and Vietnamese fish is being drummed up by domestic catfish producers who fear the competition, but safety is a real issue. It wasn and rsquo;t until recently that grocery stores had to use country of origin labeling on the products it sold, including fish. Mississippi just required country of origin labeling in restaurants last year. Georgia attempted to enact similar legislation in 2008, but it was defeated with the help of the Georgia Restaurant Association. We should demand that our food safety standards apply across the board no matter the venue. While country of origin labeling doesn and rsquo;t guarantee the meals we eat are safe, requiring imported fish to meet the same rigid standards as domestic producers would go a long way in keeping our food supply safe for consumption.

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Americans take for granted that our food supply is safe. We walk into grocery stores and we see an array of options from which to choose. While we may look at a label to see how much saturated fat a product may contain and the number of calories, the thought that the product could be dangerous never enters our minds. We should be more careful. - Hold onto your stomachs: Chinese fish are on the way

2009-01-27 Beyond the box - The National Newspaper

The Noble House is an award-winning contemporary Chinese restaurant that reflects much of Yaus original vision and inspiration. Its forward-thinking outlook and plush setting in the capstone of the pyramid-shaped Raffles hotel in Dubai has won numerous plaudits, especially for its creative use of luxury ingredients such as abalone, foie gras and wagyu beef. But while it clearly embraces a bright new future for Chinese food, the restaurant manager Zul Jumaat is also mindful of the traditions and symbolism inherent in Chinese culture, especially at new year.

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Feature At the start of the Chinese new year we look at two UAE restaurants that are breathing new life into the traditional takeaway. - Thenational thenational. ae newspaper english uae abu dhabi emirates news admc adu dhabi media company paper daily dailynews news

2009-09-08 Food and Taichi

For Chinese, eating is not just mean for pleasure and nutrition; the traditional Chinese philosophy views human beings as part of nature. We affect the universe as are we affected by whatever we take from nature, including food. In short, we are what we eat. The profundity of food extends past the environmental and nutritional effects to the medicinal properties some foods are believed to possess. For example, ginger has various medicinal benefits and is widely used in Traditional Chinese medicine. Among all Chinese cuisines, Cantonese dishes especially emphasize the medicinal aspect of food. Throughout Chinese cuisines, there are a variety of stews and soups targeting different health needs.

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Mixed Green Salad ( ) A dear friend, Alan R, recently asked me what type of food that a Taichi practitioner should eat to enhance one and rsquo;s fitness and strength. This is a simple question with very interesting and complex answers. For - Breaking news top news current news headline news top news stories todays news todays news news online

2009-01-28 Seattle Eastside Parenting Examiners: The secret history of fortune cookies (hint: they dont have them in China. )

It turns out that World War II is the reason we now believe fortune cookies are Chinese. In the US, as part of the war hysteria, Japanese-Americans were imprisoned in internment camps, since they were considered friendly to the enemy. All of those people who made and sold fortune cookies were sent to internment camps, and suddenly, there was a void in the fortune cookie business. Chinese immigrants came in and filled the jobs now empty. They grew the industry, selling the cookies in Chinese restaurants instead of Japanese restaurants. After the war, the new tradition of fortune cookies in served with Chinese food stuck, and the rest is, as they say, history.

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Seattle Article: The secret history of fortune cookies (hint: they dont have them in China. ) by local Seattle Eastside Parenting Examiners expert, Michele Johansen and Lexie Tigre. - Seattle Seattle Eastside Parenting Examiners The secret history of fortune cookies (hint: they dont have them in China. )