Press Release: Commission pushes forward co-operation with China on food and product safety

European Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou, and People’s Republic of China Minister Li Changjiang, in charge of AQSIQ (Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine) signed a “Roadmap for safer toys” on 19 September 2006. The agreement aims at ensuring toys imported to the EU are safe. Commissioner Kyprianou and Minister Li Changjiang also signed an agreement to fight the trade of “illegal food products”, based on a better exchange of information and enhanced co-ordination. Tomorrow EU and Chinese officials will hold a joint seminar on market surveillance for industrial products, to properly enforce product safety legislation.