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 BEIJING (AP) - China is stepping up enforcement against unlicensed food vendors and plans to upgrade quality standards on thousands of food and consumer products by year's end, officials said Tuesday.
As of July, inspectors had uncovered and punished 9,098 unlicensed food makers and other types of vendors, the director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, Zhou Bohua, said at a news conference.
Zhou did not give comparable figures for the same period last year, but said the administration was pursuing violators more vigorously, an indication of the pressure the government is under to grapple with China's endemic product safety problems.
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