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中国将严管婴儿食品

据新华社报道，中国卫生部门周日表示，未来将对辅助婴儿食品中砷、铅、镉等有毒金属的含量实施更为严格、更为科学的安全标准。

为此，卫生部已要求专家重新评估这些金属对婴儿健康的影响。

另外，中国疾病预防控制中心周日发表声明表示，我国现今对谷类婴儿食品中砷、铅、镉等有害金属含量实施的标准严于国际食品法典委员会的规定。

国际食品法典委员会对砷和铅的含量未做规定，而我国对这两种元素含量的规定均是200毫克/千克。

Stricter standards for infant foods

China's health authority said Sunday the country would impose stricter and more scientific safe limits on toxic metals including arsenic, lead and cadmium in complementary baby foods in the future, Xinhua reports.

The Ministry of Health has asked experts to review the impact of these metals on the infants' health to this end.

In addition, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement Sunday that China now enforces stricter limits on toxic metals including arsenic, lead and cadmium in grain baby foods than the standards set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC).

The CAC did not set limits on arsenic and lead, while China allows 200 micrograms of each of these two elements per kilogram.

(China.org.cn April 19, 2011)