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Bureau can restore faith in mainland food

I welcome the decision of the central government to set up an organisation to probe cases of tainted food and counterfeit drugs on the mainland ("Task force targets fake food, drugs", March 30).

The government has done the right thing to establish the Drug Crimes Investigation Bureau to investigate alleged cases and it can bring a lot of benefits.

It will offer greater protection to citizens, given that previous scandals have led to some citizens falling ill when they consumed tainted food.

If the new organisation can deal effectively with this problem then I hope we will no longer see a repeat of these tragedies which have sometimes led to fatalities.

It will also improve China's image internationally.

These scandals of tainted food and other faulty and dangerous products have damaged its reputation.

It has led to many consumers on the mainland and abroad no longer trusting products from China and refusing to purchase them.

If the bureau successfully targets rogue manufacturers then, hopefully, trust in products from the mainland can be restored.

I do hope this bureau will actually succeed in its brief and that, through its investigations, the tainted food problem on the mainland will be dealt with.

Nadia Lam, Tsim Sha Tsui

問題: reputation of Chinese food, lack of trust in products from mainland 
causes:t tainted food, counterfeit drugs
solution: set up the Drug Crimes Investigation Bureau to investigate/probe alleged case