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BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official struck a conciliatory tone on product safety on Monday ahead of high-level talks with China likely to be dominated by U.S. fears of substandard Chinese-made food and drugs.
The made-in-China label has come under global scrutiny following a series of scares involving tainted pet food, toothpaste and fish. In one of the biggest cases, U.S. firm Mattel had to recall millions of toys.
Insisting that Washington and Beijing were working well on safety issues, Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt said this was a question of improving the monitoring of imports not only from China but from the rest of the world.
