As with many other public health issues, the poor tend to be the most adversely affected by environmental toxins in their food supply. For example, people in rural regions of Ukraine " are resorting to milk and produce from land still contaminated by fallout from the world's worst nuclear accident three decades ago," even though those foods are proven to be unsafe ("People are Still Eating Food Contaminated by Chernobyl," 2016)
Much quicker than anticipated and a mere 3 months following the closure of the latest draft's comment period, the revised law on food safety was passed. On 24th April, 2015, the NPC's (National People's Congress's) Standing Committee passed momentous FSL revisions that are capable of materially reinforcing Chinese food company regulation (Balzano, 2015)
). In practice, variations among diverse Chinese food labeling standard and rules usually make it hard to identify appropriate labeling conditions for individual products (Fu-Tomlinson and Wang, 2015)
Chinese food imports increased more than thrice in value from 2001 to 2008. A number of highly publicized food adulteration and contamination cases in China's local food supply as well as in its imported goods to America have led public concern to be directed towards safety of Chinese foods (Gale and Buzby, 2009)