Press Release: EU-China-US co-operation on consumer issues in the spotlight at World Expo Shanghai and EU-China-US product safety summit

EU Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner, John Dalli, will put consumer issues in the spotlight in a keynote speech at the Consumer and Product Safety Day during the Shanghai World Expo, 26 October 2010. He will also meet with US and China counterparts at the second China-EU-US High Level Trilateral Summit on product safety. Both events focus on developing a modern consumer policy and in particular stronger governance on product safety in today's global market. The Consumer Day will include representatives from the EU institutions, Consumer organisations, the European business sector and a senior representative from China's State Food and Drug Administration. The aim is to explore new opportunities to strengthen working partnerships under the theme 'Better cities – Better lives'. The Trilateral Summit on product safety brings Mr Dalli together with his product safety counterparts Mr Zhi Shuping, Minister of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and Mrs Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. This trilateral co-operation reflects the determination of all sides to keep product safety at the top of the international political agenda, recognising that open markets can only be built on strong and secure management of global product supply chains.