Southeast Asian countries should review and strengthen regulations to shield their people from potentially harmful products that now move easier across borders in the era of free trade, health officials said Thursday. The continuing scandal over Chinese milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine was expected to be raised as an example of food safety concerns in a two-day meeting in Manila of health ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said. Top health...
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