Food pollution that struck France not long ago has already caused great shock among the French people and this has been escalated lately in that country. Fortunately China has remained safe from France's meat pollution. So far, there is no Lister Bacillus having been found as yet from that country's according to related inspection and quarantine departments in China.

Recently the French Departments of Sanitation and Agriculture announced again that 23 persons had caught Lister Bacillus from eating products of polluted meat and that altogether seven people had died of such bacillus.

To ensure the food hygiene and security of Chinese consumers, the State Exit-Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureau issued an urgent circular on strengthening inspection and quarantine of French meat exports to China on Jun 10. It says that meat imports by China from France are strictly restricted merely to a small amount of pork in Guangdong, Shenzhen and Shanghai; against this strict inspection and quarantine measures have already been taken in the three cities.