BEIJING, CHINA – In response to last week’s seizure of more than 60 tons of contaminated milk powder, Chinese government officials promised earlier this week to improve the country’s regulation of food products, CNN reports.

BEIJING — Two years after a national health scare over melamine-tainted milk products rocked China’s dairy industry, inspectors in western China’s Qinghai Province have seized 76 tons of dairy ingredients laced with the same industrial chemical, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday.

BEIJING — A top official at China’s food and drug safety watchdog has been sacked and is under investigation, state media said, three years after the agency’s former head was executed for corruption.

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department has banned a leading American inspector of organic foods in China because of conflicts of interest.

Honey imported from China has been seized by the FDA in Philadelphia. The honey contained a potentially fatal ingredient that is not approved for use in food products by US regulators. The ingredient chloramphenicol is actually an antibiotic that fights certain bacteria. However, it can cause aplastic anemia, leukemia and a number of other serious conditions. The powerful antibiotic is only used in cases where a person has not responded to any other treatment methods.

If you think Chinese small cars will inundate the U.S. the way that Japanese cars took the country by storm in the 1960s and 1970s, well, rest easy. Ain’t going to happen anytime soon. That’s because there is every indication that the Chinese are not only failing to lick their quality problems — but the cars may actually be getting worse.

LONDON-Hundreds of U.K. consumers who suffered severe burns from toxic sofas manufactured in China will receive a combined compensation payout of US$30 million.

A federal judge in New Orleans ruled last week that a Chinese manufacturer of noxious drywall owes seven Virginia homeowners $2.6 million to completely replace the offending material and all other affected building fixtures. Thousands of similar cases could be on the way. Do Chinese companies need to worry?

The Chinese President has promised to “look into” problems with tainted drywall that country imported to the U.S. The promise was made Tuesday by Chinese President Hu Jintao – through a translator – to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a break in the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.