China to improve food safety - still waiting for corporate improvements

Excellent news. It might be even more difficult to find foreign companies who step up and test the products they sell to western consumers instead of cutting corners as they have been doing. Corporate profits are fine but the current model of putting consumers on the front line of testing products should be met with very stiff repercussions instead of "let the market decide" over years, severe sickness and death.

The tone of most articles out there on this subject continue to obsess over China and of course, China plays a key role here though the role of US and other foreign companies needs closer attention as well. Consumer products are sold to, well, consumers, though this key ingredient is consistently missing in corporate decisions. Also absent is government oversight who miss the fact that the purchasing power of the US - billions of dollars of imports - does give power.