enses.A total of 1.1 m〓illion cases concerning food safety have been handled nationwide fr〓om 2013 to 2015. Violators will receive severe punishment in future〓, such as ca
riminal liability for the adulteration of food, the CFDA〓 said.The plans also said that no less than 300 food safety standar〓ds and about 3,050 drug safety standards must be revised during the〓 five year period.NAIROBI, Feb. 22 -- The locust outbreak plaguing East Africa calls f●or a concerted international response as the most dreaded insects d●evour millions9
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of hectares of vegetation in their cross-border migr●ation, exacerbating the already fragile food security situation in ●the region. A girl shows the desert locusts in K3
itui County, Kenya●, Feb. 20, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Yu) The desert locust, which can tra●vel 150 km in a single day, is deemed the most devastating of locus●ts. A small swaB
rm covering one square km can eat the same amount of● food as 35,000 people in a day, said the United Nations Food and A●griculture Organization (FAO). "The situation rema9
ins extremely ala●rming in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where widespread desert locust● infestations and a new generation of breeding threaten food securi●ty and livelihoods in the region," it noted Tuesday. The locusts mo●st recently invaded South Sudan from Uganda, and the South Sudan go●vernment is seeking funds worth 20 milli0
on U.S. dollars for chemica●ls, sprays and personnel to counter the locust invasion. The Horn o●f Africa is faced with unprecedented challenges of food security an●d economic development, with a humanitarian crisis looming ahead. T●he FAO has urged immediate, adequate countermeasures and intensifie●d international efforts. A sw2
