Recent food scares from China have prompted Shanghai to begin using mobile food tests to verify the safety of food within 30 minutes. Officials plan to begin using the system to test meat and vegetables before the end of the year and will use the test results to enforce legal rulings.
Food exports from China this year have caused illnesses, and officials want Chinese companies to adopt the same standards as the countries to which food is imported. Earlier this year, the United States blacklisted two Chinese companies accused of putting melamine in pet food, killing an unknown number of cats and dogs. Also, Mississippi and Alabama have banned catfish from China after tests found ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin, two antibiotics that are banned in the United states.
Other problems with food exports from China include baby milk that has killed infants and carcinogenic residue in fish.
