China publishes draft regulation on food safety to solicit public opinion

China publishes draft regulation on food safety to solicit public opinion

BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- China's new draft food safety law, which lays out penalties from fines to life in prison for makers of substandard food, was published on the national legislature website on Sunday for public discussion.

Members of the public are being invited to make recommendations and submissions on the draft publicized at the National People's Congress (NPC) website, www.npc.gov.cn.

The draft law, covering food safety evaluation, monitoring, recall and information release, was submitted to the NPC Standing Committee in December last year for the first hearing. …