Food safety steps encouraging: EU official

The Chinese government's measures to improve the safety of food products are encouraging, but the most important thing is "implementation and results", the European Commissioner for Health said yesterday.

"The European Union (EU) is willing to provide any support necessary to reduce food safety problems related to Chinese products," Markos Kyprianou said in Beijing yesterday.

During his two-day visit to Beijing, Kyprianou held high-level meetings with Chinese officials to discuss issues such as food and fodder exports from China, including melamine in fodder and unauthorized genetically modified organisms in rice, and the measures to tackle illegal trade in food products.